In the essay “Our English Syllabus”, C. S. Lewis speaks of education and it’s importance in our lives. One idea in this piece of writing that I found very interesting is that we will never be able to learn everything. The universe is so large and filled with so many topics that it is impossible to cover and learn all of them throughout the span of our lifetime. This reminds us how great our God is. He created the entire world in six days out of nothing, and we will never be able to completely understand it in the 30,000 days that we live. We will never even be able to understand one topic because according to Lewis, “a prefect study of anything requires a knowledge of everything.” In studying one subject we must look to other subjects to help us understand the first subject because they relate to one another. Studying sound waves is a lot more complex than knowing what they do. In order to learn this topic fully, one needs to have knowledge about the structure of the human ear, the mediums through which the waves travel, why the waves reflect off certain objects and are absorbed into others, and so forth. All subjects are connected together, and a knowledge is needed of all of them in order to understand just one of them.
Because there is so much to learn, we must never stop learning. After we finish our college education, we will hardly have skimmed the surface of all there is to know. It’s important for us to continue studying after our formal education is finished because we can gain a better understanding of the things we learned and apply that to our occupation. God’s creation is so great and magnificent, and we will never be able to know everything about it because there is simply too much to learn.
Nice job Courtney! The more we learn, the more we see how much we don't know. This is especially true when we are studying what God says about himself in his Word. The more we understand about him, the more we can see how great he is and how little we can really comprehend about him. He is so high above us, and yet, we can be thankful that in his great love, he has chosen to look upon us and call us his children.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you have to say. But while we can never stop learning, just sitting back and letting the knowledge come to you doesn't help either. And just because we can't learn everything, doesn't mean we shouldn't try to learn as much as we can about the world God has given us.
ReplyDeleteI appreciated your example concerning sound waves. While we can easily know what something is, we are challenged to search beyond it if we are to undertsand how and why it is the way it is.
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