<h2>Prompt: Can knowledge be a burden rather than a benefit?</h2>
<p>Knowledge, no doubt, is power in the present world we live in. Besides, this is the information age. Everything we do and get thrives on information. To pass an examination, on its own, is facilitated by information garnered on the subject area. Thus, knowledge is always a benefit to the individual who has it. A few examples and anecdotes help validate why this opinion about knowledge holds water.</p>
<p>In the early 90's, Nigerian banking was what one can describe as crude. For one to deposit money in say, 'First Bank,' one needed to go to the particulat 'First Bank' branch, where one opened the account. There was nothing like internet banking. Long queues snaked through the banking halls because of this. Most people preferred to have saves in their houses than stand for hours in banking halls. However, two young men went to the United States to find out how modern banking was done. It was in the States they discovered the concept of automated teller machines (ATM) and internet banking. Discovering this, they learnt all they could learn about internet banking. They then brought what they had learned to the Nigerian banking sector. Eversince the incorporation of ATM's and internet banking in the Nigerian banking sector, banking has never been the same.People can now easily transfer funds from one account to the other, in the comfort of their homes. Needless to say, those two original innovators made a lot of money from the knowledge they brought into Nigeria.</p>
<p>Another particulartly interesting example is that of a boy name Luke. Luke was a student of University of Lagos, medical chapter. During his third year of anatomy, Luke took out time to learn the intricacies of the human anatomy. Most medical examinations requires just memorizind definitions. Hence, other students did not see the need to learn the detailed processes. However, in their final examinations, a little modification was made in their examination question style. Apparently, it was to test a new way of accessing medical students. In effect, many students scored low marks. Luke, however, had an eighty percent. Knowledge, he had acquired, had proven to be utterly beneficial.</p>
<p>Whatever we learn always, in some way, ends up being useful. xit may be in a couple of years that they become beneficial. Nonetheless, it's never a burden to knowledge, however unimportant it is at the time being.</p>