Essay On The Importance Of Knowledge

There are some assumptions can be made due to the title itself. The title only suggests that only knowledge can produce both meaning and purpose in our personal lives. The knowledge we are using will not be useful if there is no meaning or purpose exists inside. Then, is there always a point to knowledge? Is it always meaningful to have knowledge to produce meaning and purpose? By questioning these, what exactly is knowledge? I believe that the meaning of knowledge can be defined as the process of experiences through education. Through education, humans gain knowledge, thus, knowledge is the information that we learned from the education life throughout our lifetime. Knowledge can be obtained through ways of knowing such as perception, emotion,

For example, I’ve read The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde in English class few weeks ago and just finished the play. Although I felt this book was very boring in the beginning and sometimes I questioned myself: Why do I need to read this kind of literature? What’s the point of reading this kind of book? Does reading this book will make me more knowledgeable? But, I’ve realized that this is a valuable book that I’ve read in the class. The book talks about trivial things in the story, it still expresses political and social ideas. It contains the aesthetic structure as well as provided meaning in which can be applied to our personal lives in an allegorical way. The author might want to imply the approach to a new philosophical way of life to the reader through the use of imagery or allegory in the story. Reading literature won’t provide me the meaning right now, but perhaps later in life, I might realize the subtext of the literature or from the particular book. Thus, reading literature not only gives us an emotional intelligence, but also gives us to develop our emotion and broaden our perception to form a new philosophical point of life. In a way, reading literature can be the meaning of creating a new path of life, which in a way of searching for the nature of reality. Nature of reality can be the path between this world and the the next