What's beyond knowledge?
Where should knowledge lead us to? — good test scores? university? excellence? expounding on a topic?
Maybe.
But perhaps Manulani Aluli Meyer is on to something. In her article, ‘Ho`oulu: Tacit knowledge and Rising Tides’, she writes that knowledge is thinking and acting combined, and these aren’t an end point because …
“They lead us to loving … aloha is our true intelligence. Here is what happens when understanding something is epxressed - it changes us. We are then open to spirit possession that we cannot fathom fully because ho`oulu is its own gift. It is not a high score on standardised tests … it is linked to the needs of others and to the healing of place.”
In other words, knowledge can be (is, if we’re aware) something that helps us transcend ourselves. Thinking and acting - knowing - can be (is, if we’re aware) a process that connects our inner world with the world around us.
To say that knowledge leads us to love is an entirely different proposition than to say it leads us to excellence.
And the first step towards realising that must be self-knowledge. How much time do schools give for that to develop and grow?