19. Write you own essay question and answer it. (Kalamazoo College/93)
How much do we really know?
We attend elementary school to learn our alphabets and the times tables. We attend middle school to learn about cells in our bodies and about the quadratic formula, and we attend high school to learn about World War II and about literary devices and rhetoric. Most of us pursue further education by going to college and aspiring to become a doctor, an engineer, a lawyer, and the list goes on. But is that all we know? Is that all we are capable of understanding? We try everyday to understand new things from the experiences we go through. We try and learn things from our mistakes and then we try to follow what we've learned. But it feels like we make the same mistakes even after we've "learned from them." Does this really show that we've learned something? Does it show how much we really know?
Physicists try to discover new things about the atmosphere and about the things that surround us. Doctors try to find cures for diseases that are "incurable." Engineers design buildings that are higher than we could have ever imagined - take the tallest building in Dubai for example. Lawyers try to figure out new laws that will benefit those that are "oppressed." But is that how much they really know? Even with these people working hard day in and day out, we still don't know much about the black hole, people are still dying with different diseases, and buildings are still collapsing after natural disasters. Though many, including me, think we know everything that is important to us, there is still so much out there. When we feel like we've figured one thing out, some other thing always needs to be figured out. It's a circle that never ends.
The world in which we live in today is too vast to figure everything out. Some thing always needs to be discovered. We all live to find out our "soul purpose" in life. For some, it's following the word of God, for others it's helping the needy, and for the rest of the world, it's living a normal life. Whether it's for money, love, power, or simply just live, there is so much more that we can discover. We're just at the tip of the iceberg of knowledge.
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Once you know that in fact you know little and there is always more to learn then you have moved to a new level of maturity. There is never a moment when we've learned it all and we will only learn a fraction of what the world has to offer, but that is what makes it exciting to me that there is always another frontier and therfore that it can never become boring.
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