The non-conscious nature of knowledge
The next time he did the square, he got a pretty good sense of the 90 degree angle. Sometimes he will turn the page to kind of get it right, but he at least understood the and that's all. When this happened, I realized that I never realized that my ability to draw a square came because of me knowing how that 90 degree angle looks. I assumed that maybe it is just some sort of a sense that tells you about the 90 degree
Aishani Chatterjee
@Aishani · 3:32
I think that's why when we are kids, when we haven't yet come across geometry and stuff like that, it is hard for us to comprehend shapes in their entirety because we don't really get it all the time, right? I mean, we know how square is supposed to look like and how maybe a parallelogram is supposed to look like. But once we actually learn about angles, I think that's when we start forming these ideas about shapes and lines in a more concrete way
shafali anand
@shafali · 4:39
And then finally, probably in a year from now, or maybe a little more. He'll be like you when it comes to squares, where he wouldn't even have to think to draw a square. And this is exactly how we all learn everything. Take the instance of climbing the steps. We have all reached the level of unconscious competence in that. Thank you, Sangeeta, for sharing this beautiful spell. I really enjoyed it
All this comes out of knowledge, basic knowledge that you learn and probably relate to when somebody tells you or teaches you later on while you're learning something else. School education just forms the foundations of your learning. And I just feel there is foolish to say that we don't need to learn this and we don't need to learn that. Moving on, there could be an argument as to what about advanced stuff. Why do we need to learn advanced algebra or advanced biology?
Everything seems easy. But I still feel that to oscillate that we need to retain some of our conscious competence, that's very important. If you need to explain to somebody, teach somebody or put across a point, convince somebody, gut feeling is okay. If you could explain that gut feeling and have a reason why it's right, that's always much more useful in convincing others. That went on. And thank you so much again for this wonderful explanation
Sreeja V
@Wordsmith · 1:41
But having said that, I think, as you rightly said, you may know a recipe, you know that something has gone wrong when somebody else has tried the same methodology. So what is required is to figure out and put those in clear buckets, right? So that anybody can literally take that process up and then achieve the end result. So this is a beautiful thought, and I just loved listening to it
shafali anand
@shafali · 1:58
So thank you so much. All I did was just add a concept that I had learnt long back, so I don't think too much of it. It's just that, you know, you said something and it connected with something else. I guess it's just a manifestation of what we learn in Schema theory, right? Thank you once again for this lovely opportunity to discuss ID with you. Bye
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Hi, Sreeja. Thank you for applying to me as well. I agree with you. I completely agree with you on, you know, how passionate teachers need to be to be able to actually really break down things for you