Lack Of Knowledge In Shakespeare's As You Like It

In the play, As You Like it, Shakespeare pens through the character Jaques, the proverbial saying, “all the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players.” No doubt, we are all players on the world's stage, but like Shakespeare—whether we've ever put pen to page, or fingers to keyboard, to spin a yarn or not—I believe we are all storytellers as well. As the oft-quoted dictum goes, knowledge is power, and stories, ab initio have been its modus operandi. Romantic, or realistic, sociological or scientific, I believe stories are the looking glass which reflect us to ourselves and to the outside world. The more lenses we look through, the higher the potential for growth we can attain on both the societal and individual levels. To facilitate said growth calls for …show more content…
In order to level the playing field for those without the resources to get over these hurdles, I believe we must treat information as a basic human necessity, and that to do this means strengthening public institutions like libraries. Moreover, I believe the dearth of information out there, and the multitudes of mediums, forms and outlets they now come in and from, calls for public competency in critical media literacy; the more organizations working towards providing these competencies, the better we are not just as a nation, but as a society. It is for these reasons a profession in librarianship resonates so strongly with me. As an undergraduate I studied secondary education with the desire to become a social studies teacher. Though this did not come to fruition, I did so because of my desire to see others succeed and to become a part of something bigger than myself. As libraries continue to solidify their presences as hubs for community, advocacy and leadership, they satisfy the same desires within