Responses on ignorance to our environment
Hello Nikita Brychkoski,
I hope you are doing well. Your week’s reflection is short though it has a notable point. I agree with you that with time ignorance will become ultimately impossible to remove for the next generation to come. People have the idea that everything solution or problem can be solved with technology or science. Our environments have been polluted with people who know the hazardous effect of polluted environment but plays ignorance with our health. In our schools, you may find students passing litters and papers in the compound, believing it is the role of the cleaner to clean our environment. How can we impart knowledge to our children if they are duped with ignorance to this level? We should encourage people to learn to live a blissful life. Ignorance will still cost, and we should shun away from such behaviors.
Hi Junwei Fan,
Thank you for sharing your post. It is thought-provoking. I agree with you based on why we often ask ourselves the reason as to why we go to school. As I was still young, I thought the only reason people go to school is to acquire good-paying jobs and be productive. However, reading Orr’s article, I came to realize that a person who is learned and lacks critical thinking is ignorant. Orr connects this aspect of ignorance to our environment. “True intelligence is long-range and aims toward wholeness,” whereas “Cleverness is mostly short-range and tends to break reality into bits and pieces” (p. 11). We should equip our students with the necessary skills and knowledge on how they can conserve the environment. Parents should follow up with their children back at home since they tend to neglect things that they have been taught at school.