<p>"Is it more important to discover new ways of thinking about what is already known than to discover new data or facts?"</p>
<p>what do you guys think about this? and why?
thanks :)</p>
<p>Well if you already know it, why do you need new ways to know it? Seems pretty silly to me!</p>
<p>Facts and Figures don’t mean much if you don’t know what to do with them. It’s Quality vs Quantity. I’d rather learn something as thoroughly as possible than learn multiple things at only a rudimentary level. It’s like our education; high school (ideally) teaches you fundamentals of everything, undergraduate allows you to focus more on learning your major of choice, and graduate school covers that area of focus in depth.
That’s how I see it, anyway.</p>
<p>Both are essential to the pursuit of knowledge and understanding, and I see them as entirely inextricable.</p>
<p>Thinking about what we already know in different ways can lead us to further factual discoveries, and perplexing factual discoveries can lead us to discover new ways of thinking about the world.</p>
<p>thanks for your opinions :)</p>
<p>you might be wondering why im asking, it’s not because im curious about how Rice students think about obscure, open-ended question, (okay, maybe just a little bit…) but mostly it’s because it’s for my ToK essay, which i am going to start and finish tonight!!!</p>
<p>that was quite the run-on sentence…lol</p>