In most of society we learn from going to school and from what our teachers teach us. They feed us their knowledge of the subject and we are told to memorize that and take what we are given and run with it. In the Prophet, the teacher says that you cannot be given understanding you have to learn from your own knowledge of topics. All your knowledge is already in your head, just asleep. I thought that this was a cool way about thinking about minds and the information that we know. Except when I reread these couple lines, it made me think that if I am not so smart in a certain topic, that I am unable to understand information that is not already known. There is so much out in the world that I do not know about, but someday hope to learn. The teachings that everyone else can teach me and I can learn from seems to go a little bit against the Prophet, but my vision of knowledge can be different then my peers, family, and friends.
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