Knowledge learned through study and ability to be creative
While many people in resent years would claim that the ability to be creative is crucial, I commit to the notion that knowledge learned through study is still playing an unshakably prior role in our process of study. The main reasons accounting for my opinion rest with follows.
In the first place, knowledge is the key to fulfill our dreams. Look back on the past century, we can see how our lives have changed by many great inventions: we travel faster by car、by train or airplane; we communicate easier with internet and cell phones; we can even fly to the moon by spaceship. Many things, which used to be dreams of our ancestors, have become real. However, all this by no means come from nothing. The creative people dreamed about those changes, but it is our understandings of the world that have helped to realize them. A case in point is the invention of airplane. Many years ago, people who are tired of walking thousands of miles and moving mountains long to get to their destinations brought forward the idea of flying. However, it was until hundreds of year later, when people get enough knowledge to build a real plane that their dreams could come true.
Knowledge, which is accepted by most people, is the prerequisite of all researches. If you want to write a paper, you have to know the background of your subject and how others have studied on it, otherwise your research result will end up being groundless or useless. Meanwhile, you have to demonstrate your issue with some well accepted theories to make sure that your study is convincing and credible, and those theories are, in most cases, from your previous study.
In conclusion, as knowledge is the experience accumulated by our forerunners which is tested and justified millions of times by practices, it will be really beneficial if we can make full use of them. |