Humility
is a mark of the truly learned!
Instead
of becoming a source of pride, the knowledge intelligent people already got
prompts them to be humble for included in the ephemeral knowledge they have are their consequential
aspects:
what
they already knew is very little compared to all the knowledge there is to
know…
·
Knowledge can be
indeed considered as a treasure but the physicality of human beings makes him
incapable of assimilating all knowledge. As Steven Spielberg depicted in the
movie “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” there is simply so much more to know out there that we could not possibly take them
all in. A sane person would have to be humbled by this… And so most of the
time, a learned person have to settle to having some form of expertise in one field
of knowledge.
knowledge
cannot be stolen but it is of no use unless used to serve others…
·
The use of learning
and knowledge is for giving. No knowledge is truly useful
to oneself alone for its real value is in its use for serving many. If you are
good at making watches, there’s no use making a thousand watches for yourself.
If you are good at constructing tall buildings, there’s no use making a
hundred-storey building for your own use only! If you’re good in singing,
wouldn’t it be boring if you sing only to yourself? If you are good in drawing
or painting, what would be the use of your artworks if nobody else sees them? Talent
is useful only when used for serving others just as knowledge gets real value only when
given away.
knowledge
unused will eventually fade away to be obscured or lost…
·
you lose what
you do not use is physical law!
Anything we only keep (or worse, hoard) in storage, including knowledge, will
eventually become useless. Time erodes the value of material possessions by
weakening them or by simply making them obsolete just as time obscures knowledge
unused until they are eventually forgotten. The only knowledge we can retain
are those we use!
amusing
or perplexing?
·
Because of the
above, I find it amusing to see students cheating in tests. In effect, they are
telling the examiner that they know something (though they don’t) that they would
have no use anyway, because they can
only give away something they want to
give away if they already got them. That is counterproductive because they
would have nothing to draw upon when faced with situations requiring the use of
the knowledge they lied about and without realizing or admitting it, they are
treading a path of un-development because a person cannot only grow when he/she
admits the insufficiency of his/her knowledge thereby preparing the self for
learning. It’s amusing if not perplexing because cheaters thought they are
fooling the examiners when they are actually fooling themselves by blocking
their avenue for learning new knowledge, by robbing them of a chance to develop
self-confidence, and by preventing personal development.
Yes,
learning and knowledge can indeed be considered as treasures but only when you
see their source of value! Are you among those who are happy to see these?
~ Sir Magi
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