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Knowing is not understanding?
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Oyvind (Administrator) 2008-01-14, 01:22 #1
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Subject: Knowing is not understanding?
In his review of Kieran Egan's book The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding in Analytic Teaching, Vol. 18 No. 2, Fisher starts off very nicely by quoting an eight year old saying: "I know a lot of things, but I don't always understand them." And I who thought that when I know things it is precisely because I understand them... What is the relationship between knowing and understanding?
Retention of strangeness is the only antidote to estrangement. T. W. Adorno
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