a dialog on importance of knowledge
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The importance of this knowledge cannot be underestimated, as without such a gathering of facts there is no ground for objective thinking.
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Knowledge has come to be seen as the key to the overall development of the so-called modern world and the mainstay of its living standards. As a result, education has been turned into the primary channel for the transmission and cultivation of knowledge. In the educational context knowledge generally refers to the field of information that constitutes the wide scope of graded academic studies as well as the value systems involved in the given cultural context. Human society seems to have evolved in the belief that the greater our knowledge the better equipped we will be to deal with both the practical matters of survival as well as the ethical implications of living. The drive for knowledge has not only been motivated by these aims of material and moral order but by the curiosity to ascertain the nature of things independently of their being of any use to us. The importance of this knowledge cannot be underestimated, as without such a gathering of facts there is no ground for objective thinking. It has also been assumed, not without reason that the logical order of thought is akin to the natural causation of phenomena, thought being the abstract reflection of a deeper universal intelligence which is at the source both of nature and of consciousness. In this view the logic of thought would be a mental reflection of the Logos at the very origin of creation. This kind of assumption was at least implicit in the whole Hellenistic stream of culture that informs the development of Western civilization to this day. Thus in this stream, thought and intelligence have been closely identified, the intellect being the faculty of factual, sane and rational thought whose very precision is not only capable of establishing internally consistent epistemological systems but also of opening the way to insight by way of dialectical inquiry.