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The Study Of An Academic Discipline Alters The Way We Perceive The World
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I used to be a foolish village child. When my brother returned for the first time from the county seat, he exclaimed how big the world must be, for it took four hours for him to reach the mere county town. When my uncle returned for the first time from our province capital, he made the same statement, but in a prouder manner, about the bigness of the world. As for me, although I understood that I was in no position to cut in, I promised myself that I would find and describe an even bigger world to them, someday.
Then one day, my primary school geography teacher placed the globe on the teacher's desk, and pointed out, matter-of-factly, where our province was. All of a sudden, I realized that the world was to be a different one for me. When I returned home, I found myself knowing more than my brother and uncle about how big the world was. That was the first time I found " Knowledge is power. " Namely, with any amount of knowledge passed to you, you find a change both in yourself and in the world, including people. For instance, that little bit of information I received from the geography teacher was so powerful that it ...
... at once caused me to feel bigger and the world (including my brother and uncle) to appear smaller. But at this moment I know better.- it "altered" the way I perceived the world However, my doubt about the world remained. "If that globe is where we live, why do people at the lower end not fall off?" I wondered to myself.
I am glad all these years that I did not ask that silly question to my geography teacher, for soon my physics lessons let me know why. As a science student, I long ago concluded that I know "physically" enough about this world. But I was always ready to admit that I knew little about the other part of the world: the human beings. Why were people so greedy? Why did they hate each other so much that they preferred fighting to living peacefully? Why were the rich always rich and the poor always poor? I had a world of questions about this aspect of the world. I think it was Political Economics a discipline I took in the fourth year that helped me out of these bitter questions.
I am just back from my home village. I find the mountains there are just as green, and people in the town are just as greedy. But I can see, deep below, something my village folks never can (i. e. , minerals), and I understand why these people are so greedy. And I owe my "different eyes" to the many disciplines I took these years. They combine to allow me to find, on the one hand, that the world is not so big, complex, or mysterious as I used to find it, and, on the other, that I a not unimportant part of the world is so much stronger and profounder.
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