Knowledge management

not know anything and the second is that he is wiser than every man in Athens. While these two claims may seem contradicting to one another because of our traditional conviction of relating wisdom to knowledge, Socrates refutes this correlation with his Socratic Paradox; which instead correlates knowledge with virtue and ignorance with evil. We learn about Socrates’ notion of wisdom through his use of moral virtue when he defends himself in court against the wrongdoings he has been accused of.…

Machiavelli criticizing Plato and Aristotle Machiavelli is a realist and is more concerned with how things should be in reality, and his clarifications are based on a real world. Plato is an idealist and he is just thinking of how the ideal world is, they leave in an imaginary world, while Aristotle is always talking about existing states (try to peruse virtue). Machiavelli wants everything to be real and exist in the real world, while Plato and Aristotle have assumes in their imaginary worlds…

The education system today has the whole pedagogical process down to a science. Take a certain percentage of the student’s multiple choice score and then multiply the free response score by a seemingly random string of digits, then consider the weighted average, so and so forth. Then after crunching the numbers out comes the perfect student: One who can write the proper essay, the correct lab report, correctly perform an experiment, correctly, proper, right. But the system rarely stops to…

society and that includes being able to think critically about everything. There is a reason why the prisoner who was freed goes back to help the others see the light. He saw the truth that what they were seeing was not real and he wanted to share his knowledge with the others. It is important to distinguish between being content with one’s life and living the good life. The prisoners in Plato’s allegory are happy staring at a wall of shadows, but at the end of the day that does not achieve…

The transition of ignorance into knowledge may alter an individual's perspective of others, leading to the discovery of new relationships resulting in a personal change. These discoveries can offer the individual new understanding and renewed perceptions of one’s self and others, as shown in Michael Gow’s “Away” and in T.S Eliot’s “Journey Of The Magi”. In Michael Gow’s text, “Away” we receive an insight into the idea of self-discovery by overcoming obstacles that are life-defining. For the…

In Herman Hesse’s 1951 novel Siddhartha, the main character, Siddhartha, goes on a journey to discover and achieve the ultimate goal of the Hindu religion, enlightenment. He departs from his luscious life as a Brahmin, the highest stage in Hinduism, and goes off into the world to achieve this desired spiritual state. Along his way he apprehends that he needs to leave his past behind in order to achieve who he wants to be in the future, he stumbles upon the acknowledgment that one does not need…

Understanding Student Misconceptions As an educator, one must continue to find ways to enhance our students learning and understanding. In one stance, teachers teach the standards and objectives; however, a question arises as to whether the students are understanding what they are learning, and the teachers question, whether they are teaching the standards in a way the students will understand. Misunderstandings often occurs because sometimes the teacher may not consider that the student does…

1. Purpose of the study or the research questions? The purpose of this study was to find out the middle grade teachers’ reason for using manipulatives for teaching mathematics. It also tried to define and explain why teachers prefer using manipulatives in teaching mathematics to this grade of children. 2. How this study relate to prior research The study relates to prior research in the sense that both are interested in outlining the understanding that there are concrete mathematical concepts…

In the article “Spoiling our kids” by Amy Dickinson it talks about her own life story and what she has learned from it. The article is mainly about how kids parents spoil them and give them whatever they want whenever they want. This does not help them when the kids become older and want more things in life. It says that kids should value the present because it is a present and not because of what it was worth. It also says how we should teach our kids patience and not give them things right…

The massive open online course I have decided to partake in was called “Babies In Mind”. This course was aimed to increase knowledge about how a parent’s mind can impact the mental development of an infant. Throughout the weeks the class was conducted in unison by two individuals: Professor Jane Barlow who is a Professor of Public Health in the Early Years and a Director of Warwick Infant and Family Wellbeing Unit, and Dawn Cannon who is a Senior Teaching Fellow at Warwick Medical School and a…