To describe ‘education’ in the simplest form is the process of teaching and or learning. This encompasses the theory and the process of achieving enlightenment or knowledge and understanding. All human beings on this planet require knowledge to survive and without It even biblically It has been mentioned that people perish.
It is therefore Important In my personal life to be knowledgeable enough In all areas of human endeavourer. I would Like to describe my personal belief about knowledge epistemologically according to George F. Kneeler, 1964. “Knowledge Is a universal matter and alms to discover what Is Involved In the process of knowing. It asks questions such as: Is there something common to all the different actively to which we apply the term ” knowing’? Is knowing a special sort of mental act? If so, what is the difference between knowledge and belief?
Can we know anything beyond he objects with which our senses acquaint us? The theory of knowledge has ideas about how people think and feel despite not having a claim to an explanation scientifically. I believe just as Kneeler, 1964 asserted that there are about 6 different types of knowledge as explained below: This is the kind of knowledge that God discloses to man. His all knowing God inspires certain individuals, his revelation in permanent form, to a certain point when it may become accessible to all mankind through various religions.
It is divinely accepted to remises that those who accept it can never, according to their own rights, be mistaken. Of course there are some humanly interpretations which may distort parts of it, but in itself it is divine truth. This truth is confined to whatever religion or sect which accepts as the word of God. This knowledge is also based on supernatural phenomena although it may apply to natural phenomena as in Genesis. Therefore, there can be very little argument about the credibility of its source. It can be neither be proved nor disproved empirically.
One is bound to accept it on faith. . This Is the kind of knowledge which is accepted as true simply because It Is coming from experts. The kind of knowledge which Is found In encyclopedias, text books, monographs and specialized publications by recognized people and Institutions. A typical example are the formulas we accept for solving problems mathematically In schools, colleges. And universities and memorize tables for declining English measurements. Most of our factual knowledge Is based on authority rather than personally proving them for ourselves. 3.
This Is rather a personal way of knowing and happens at a subliminal level as asserted by psychologists, beneath the ” threshold of consciousness”. This Is intimately connected with feeling and contrasts with the logical processes usually associated with thinking at the conscious level. Using intuition, we are able to see in a sudden flash of insight” that something is the case. We understand knowledge directly without realizing how we acquired this knowledge. Its only an intense feeling wanly seems to convince us Tanat we nave Alcoves want we were looking Tort.
This is a source of knowledge derived from universally valid Judgment that are consistent with another. Rational knowledge acknowledges the contribution of the senses to knowledge in the form of bare facts and isolated impressions with the belief that intellect interprets and organizes the bits and pieces of information into what is termed as reliable and significant knowledge although it tends to be abstract. This is a world of relations and meanings and gives little understanding of the physical world and requires the help of other types of knowledge.
