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    KNOWLEDGE IS THE ONLY POWER

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    KNOWLEDGE IS THE ONLY POWER DHARAMBANDHU Education plays a major role in nurturing human talent and potential which in turn enhances their ethical values and enables them to become self reliant and achieve prosperity. One of the major intellects of his time Swami Dayanand Saraswati said that education is a tool through which a person achieves knowledge‚ civility‚ righteousness and control over his senses and because of which the darkness of illiteracy‚ immorality‚ vanity and …………… are destroyed

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    Experience Is Knowledge

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    Write an essay with the theme of your first quotation "A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong‚ which is by saying‚ in other words‚ that he is wiser today than he was yesterday." - Alexander Pope (1688-1744) "Experience is Knowledge" Many regrets may burden ones mind throughout their life. This is a totally normal part of ones life that one may have no control over. "A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong‚ which is by saying‚ in other

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    Knowledge vs. Experience

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    Neha Sharma Knowledge vs. experience The famous Indian philosopher J. Krishnamurti once said‚ “There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book‚ pass an examination‚ and finish with education. The whole of life‚ from the moment you are born to the moment you die‚ is a process of learning.” (whale.to/a/krishnamurti) Krishnamurti is addressing learning as a process in which an individual tries to gain certain knowledge for predestined purposes. He clearly believes that rote memorization

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    is contained in books." Compare and Contrast knowledge gained from experience with knowledge gained from books. In your opinion‚ which source is more important.? And Why? Explain with some real examples. By Payal Gupta (blog: http://mixwritings.blogspot.in) It is an old cliche that experience is a good teacher as compared to books. I agree with it. It can be a question of dilemma whether to prefer books or experience as a good source of knowledge. No doubt books explain us the concepts about

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    sense experience is the source of all knowledge? (30mark) The view that sense experience is the source of all knowledge is an Empiricist one. Rationalism and Empiricism are the two ways in which one can approach questions regarding the obtaining of knowledge. Empiricism would argue that knowledge from reason is trivial‚ as it doesn’t tell us anything substantial about the world‚ and the only way we can do that is through experiencing it. Locke was an empiricist who believed all knowledge was gained

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    Kate Hamilton Teresa Cheatham English 1 25 July 2012 “Knowledge is Only Potential Power” The day a child enters the world; they are ignorantly bliss from the world around them. But is ignorance bliss? Society is a harsh place‚ and none know this better than the creature in Frankenstein. The creature is given the ability to think at a far higher level than the general public‚ and yet the only thing he wants is to be loved. Victor Frankenstein abandons his creature‚ like when a parent abandons

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    Common Sense and Science as Sources of Knowledge There are many sources of knowledge as the society progresses. In this case‚ the most controversial question would be whether or not common sense can be accounted as a reliable source of knowledge? Although both common sense and science can be taken into account as sources of knowledge‚ I will argue that to some extent common sense and scientific knowledge are still very different from one another. That is‚ scientific knowledge is much more highly valued

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    In general‚ knowledge gained from books has a wider range than that gained from experience. We now live in a world that typophile is no longer exorbitant‚ and that printed matters are readily available. In libraries‚ we can learn nearly everything only if we have already acquired basic reading skills‚ philosophy‚ history‚ literature‚ physics‚ mathematics‚ chemicals‚ biology‚ geography‚ anthropology‚ and the list will go on. Unlike the experience of an individual that is limited by the range of

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    the books or teaching in a class room can give you knowledge but to bring to real life or how to make it happen can only be learnt by keeping in touch with the times. ’History repeats itself’ and so are societies in different times. The problems that we are facing today could have been faced by a different society/location in the past. we can definitley be able to learn from their mistakes or successes if we choose to learn from them. The only way we can achieve this is by trying to keep ourselves

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    What if the Internet were the only source of information The Internet is the most important source of information in the modern world. You can do a lot of different things: watch funny videos about kittens‚ read actual news from all over the world‚ connect you with your friends‚ or something like that. You also have an access to a big free encyclopedia named ‘Wikipedia’. There you can look after things you have never heard about‚ but also after some useful things‚ like a definition of some

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