With regard to genuine learning — however disconcerting and hard and far your ego may fall — you learn that what matters are the things you learn after you learn that you don't know it all and that not only is coming even close to knowing-it-all something that you simply can't and so won't but you also learn that the more you know the more you know you don't.
Right! The truly wise and knowledgeable, have the wisdom and humility to both question everything, and to adjust their world-view according to what their scrutiny reveals.
Very true. And the "education" served up to us by this system aims to hoodwink us into imagining that, because we have its authorised certificates or degrees, we have understood everything and have no need to search any further!
That last little stanza encapsulates the only thing I know to be true!
I love this! Having a beginner's mind, every day, keeps us humble.
Right! The truly wise and knowledgeable, have the wisdom and humility to both question everything, and to adjust their world-view according to what their scrutiny reveals.
Very true. And the "education" served up to us by this system aims to hoodwink us into imagining that, because we have its authorised certificates or degrees, we have understood everything and have no need to search any further!
Perfectly true, perfectly stated.
With exception that anything is a possibility!
That goes without saying, but I'm glad you said it.