Knowledge and Wisdom

cognition and wisdom. Sometimes we have all we imply of one, but not adequacy of the other. And often, too often, we dont know the difference. Often, too often, we mistake association, the accumulation of facts, for wisdom, the ability to take a leak the right choices in life.To succeed as individuals, and as a nation, we need to know how to put what we know to proper use. Perhaps this is why our dodge of education so often fails. Children be fed facts, lots of facts, without being shown the use of those facts. That can lead to a gain in knowledge without each gain in wisdom, or it can lead nowhere at all as the educatee turns away from what he or she perceives as busy work designed to fill the mind with otiose facts.Often, too often, students are told they must learn something without being told why, without being control toward the wisdom they will need to put to proper use the facts they are given. Or they are told they must learn something to pass an examination. A r elease grade is held up as the ultimate goal, and thats not good.What should be held up as the ultimate goal is both knowledge and wisdom gained in school that can be put to good use in life. When the student sees that this fact, or that bit of information, can have real apprize somewhere besides on an examination, that student will want to learn. And that student will have a higher score on any examination. Knowledge and wisdom. One needs the other, and we all need both.