The Relationship between Outside Knowledge and Self-Knowledge on Slavery
The ability to generalize what one has learned beyond the original context can either compliment or cause a conflict to a person’s understanding of a topic. While many like to believe that the most important lessons are learned in school, many others will argue reversely; suggesting that most useful knowledge is gained outside of school. Therefore, the relationship between outside knowledge and self-knowledge is essential to understand literary works of slavery and its abolishment. When one thinks of slavery, it is easy to empathize with the conditions in which slaves were kept as shameful and disgraceful because we take what we learned educationally and correlate with
The ability to generalize what one has learned beyond the original context can either compliment or cause a conflict to a person’s understanding of a topic. While many like to believe that the most important lessons are learned in school, many others will argue reversely; suggesting that most useful knowledge is gained outside of school. Therefore, the relationship between outside knowledge and self-knowledge is essential to understand literary works of slavery and its abolishment. When one thinks of slavery, it is easy to empathize with the conditions in which slaves were kept as shameful and disgraceful because we take what we learned educationally and correlate with