The Importance Of Knowledge And Personal Knowledge

How is knowledge gained? What are the sources? To what extent might these vary according to age, education, or cultural background? Relate this to the relationship between shared knowledge and personal knowledge. Knowledge is information and skills acquired through experience, awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation. It can also be defined as justified true belief. All types of knowledge can be gained through direct experience by your own perception, memory, consciousness and reason. The different types of knowledge are personal, propositional, procedural and shared knowledge. These can come from sources like education, personal experiences, common or shared knowledge and knowledge of facts. The different sources

In my life I have experienced all the ways of knowing throughout all of my life experiences. Most of my knowledge was gained through my education. My education taught me how to know by authority, acquaintance, logically, empirically. However though life experiences I have taught my self and developed how to know empirically, consciously, by empathy, faith and moral belief. I believe that how knowledge is gained is greatly affected by the generation. For example, although my parents grew up in the same country is a similar lifestyle, their ways of knowing were much different than mine, today. For example, they were in a worse education system and had different acquaintances. I have argued with my parents that I know more now than they did at my age but they brought up the argument that they know more now. This is true because they have had many more experiences and years of education than I have, but I have easier sources of

For age, a young child will acquire personal and shared knowledge from their parents and source of education. However that could vary depending on this child's culture; the child could be in a very poor area in a third world country where education is not accessible. Therefore that child would most likely gain their knowledge from their parents and/or the people in their community. On the other hand, a child at AIS would gain their knowledge from their teachers, friends, parents, internet and television. For an adult, in the United States, they would gain their new knowledge from by acquaintance, internet and television and introspection. And adult has already developed knowledge through ways of knowing such as conscious but still has time to know new things through new experiences although alter from the experiences of a child. The adult and the child gain knowledge in similar ways however they learn different things. For an adult in a poor area in a third world country, they would not have access. Cultural background is also a big factor for how knowledge is gained regarding faith and moral belief. For example, because of my religion it is shared knowledge that God exists however other religions do not believe in God. There are many other beliefs that alter within religions and cultures which affect how and where knowledge is