The Great: The unknown

I learnt that...
The writer motivated me to learn more things - keep learning every moment - in quest of the truth!

Heraklietos of Ephesos
Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
Knowledge is not intelligence.
In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected.
Change alone is unchanging.
The same road goes both up and down.
The beginning of a circle is also its end.
Not I, but the world says it: all is one.
And yet everything comes in season.

The Great: Bertrand Russell

I learnt that...
The writer showed his 'personal touch' toward his life. I appreciate that he enjoyed living. I would adopt similar perspectives - unable to tolerate sufferings, inequalities, injustice...


Bertrand Russell:
Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind].

Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of [people].
I have wished to know why the stars shine.

Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
Of children in famine, of victims tortured
And of old people left helpless. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer.

This has been my life; I found it worth living.

http://www.wisdomquotes.com/000541.html

Competence: Knowledge

Knowledge...

Skills demonstrated -
observation and recall of information
knowledge of dates, events, places
knowledge of major ideas
mastery of subject matter
Question Cues:list, define, tell, describe, identify, show, label, collect, examine, tabulate, quote, name, who, when, where, etc.

source: http://www.coun.uvic.ca/learn/program/hndouts/bloom.html