Education Verve
Knowledge
Knowledge is facts, information, understanding, and skills that you get through experience or education. Knowledge is gathered over time. You expand and grow as a person as you gain new knowledge. Education opens your mind to new things. As you advance a step further with education, you gain knowledge and learn what to do with it. Knowledge is a powerful tool. Knowledge contributes to development of self and society. Knowledge can be used by people to changes their lives for the better. Knowledge helps you understand yourself and others better. Knowledge opens doors to careers. Knowledge helps you in conversations with others and to get respect.
15 ways to improve your knowledge
1. Practice
Keep learning and practicing a skill and stay with it until you know it well.
2. Ask
You don't know everything so you have to keep asking questions to keep gaining knowledge.
3. Want
You can only climb up the ladder of knowledge by wanting to learn.
4. Refine
Knowledge must take a shape, when it can be put into words, or reduced to a principle so it’s up to you to work on refining what you learn.
5. Open your mind
Study things from different angles and perspectives. As you expand your knowledge, you may sometimes need to revise your opinions and the way you do things.
6. Experiment
Try something new. See what happens. Make discoveries.
7. Teach
Teach others to help you understand what your know and to pass on knowledge to others. The act of teaching will produce more knowledge in you.
8. Read
There is so much to learn from reading books, printed materials, and online.
9. Write
To know something, you should be able to write about it. Write to explain and remember.
10. Listen
By listening, you may hear something useful to you.
11. Observe
Keep your eyes open to things happening around you. Watch what helps some people or situations have success so you can follow what works. Watch what caused some people or situations to have mistakes so you can avoid them.
12. Organize
Put your information and your thoughts in order so you can effectively handle your own knowledge.
13. Define
Be able to recognize, describe, and give a definition about a thing you learn about.
14. Reason
Use logic to determine what you learn is true. Compare different points. Note similarities and differences and check them against established laws or principles.
15. Inspire
Inspire yourself and others to continue learning and gaining knowledge.
Types of knowledge
The three main categories of knowledge are personal, procedural, and propositional.
Personal knowledge is knowledge of a circumstance or fact gained through first-hand observation or experience.
Procedural knowledge is knowledge of how to do something. Someone with procedural knowledge has the skills and ability to do something.
Propositional knowledge is knowledge of fact. It is what philosophy is about and says that something is the case based on truth and justification.
