Issue: What most human beings really want to attain is not knowledge, but certainty. Gaining real knowledge requires taking risks and keeping the mind open-but most people prefer to be reassured rather than to learn the complex and often unsettling truth about anything.
Knowledge is considered indispensible in human beings’ daily life and the development of humans, society and the world. Why is it indispensible? What I believe is that knowledge is not only for supplying certainty and that human beings want to attain knowledge not only because of the desire to obtain certainty, but for their own development as well.
Knowledge is primarily used to offer certainty. Human beings need the sense of safety and security when they are striving to live in the world and survive competitions between each other. The fast way that is available for one to assure and prove that he is right is to rely on knowledge which is thought to be greatly convictive. On one hand, each of us has been convicted by knowledge since we are given birth to this world; we learn a great deal from books and classes. The knowledge that is invented and discovered by our ancestors turns to be our invaluable wealth so that we successors do not need to recognize and define the world all over again from the start. We learn to define the world continually after our predecessors. On the other hand, knowledge offers us the sense of safety and security. When worried about what to do next after preparing the apparatus in a chemical experiment, open the textbook and you will get to be confident to take the next step.
Moreover, we human beings are pushed to learn and master more and more knowledge so that we can go further and further on the way to the future. Only by mastering and understanding all the wealth passed down from the old generations, can we young generations stand higher and achieve more accomplishment. For one thing, individuals need knowledge to equip ourselves up so that we can survive the competitions between human beings and live a life of higher standards. For the other, the development of the whole human world requires the support of knowledge. Just as the great scientist Isaac Newton said, “If I have seen further than most men, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Without knowledge of different fields, it is impossible for humankinds to develop.
In conclusion, human beings want to learn knowledge, as far as I am concerned, not only for certainty, but also for self-growth and development.
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