Essay On Academic Discipline

“The quality of knowledge produced by an academic discipline is directly proportional to the duration of historical development of that discipline.” Explore this claim with reference to two disciplines.
As a child growing up in a South Indian community, I learnt “Katrathu kai alavu, kallathathu ulagalavu” which suggested that ‘what we have learned is just a handful, what we haven’t learned is the size of the world’. Living in the 21st century, we know about things which have been researched for a long time such as the brain, as well as things which have just been invented in the past few years, such as a laptop. But does the quality of knowledge that we have now depend on the duration of its development? To answer this question, we must first understand what is meant by the quality of knowledge and the duration of historical development. The quality of knowledge produced by an academic discipline refers to the reliability of knowledge found through discovery and invention. The duration of historical development of a specific discipline refers to the time frame during which major changes and discoveries have been made in that discipline. I do not agree with the statement that the quality of knowledge produced by an academic discipline is directly proportional to the duration of historical development, since the duration can be short sometimes but the knowledge gained is of better quality. In some cases, our knowledge is not being enhanced, it is rather being reinforced. I