Gaining knowledge

The way we gain our knowledge and experiences progress and change over the years.
Strangely family guidance is often the least noticed but is often with the longest lasting effects.

Firstly it is by touch and ouch as a toddler.
Before we start to explore “all is as is”.

Parents soon realise a quiet toddler is a problem in action. Has he/she has found something they should not have. If hurt the more noise the less the consequences, how ever with more than one child, these events may be masked with other background anguishes.

By the time we go to school the following happens “everybody has this/that” becomes de rigueur for a must have, soon followed with “my best friends will hate me”

“Miss said” becomes a logical reason to contradict mum and dad.

Then we either love or hate the scholarly process.
As I have mentioned before I am dyslexic, hence I failed all essay based exams including English “O” level three times never ever passing while taking “A” level Maths, Chemistry and Physics.
(I love word processors and spell checkers but still have to ensure I don’t hover my carpet or hoover the lawn.)

But one year I had a Chemistry teacher who did not check home or class work, I wrote very little down but passed end of year exam 75% third in class the other two “swots” neither over 80%.

As a teenager we believe anything and everything our parents say or do is wrong and embarrassing.
But anything and everything a friend’s parent says or does is absolutely cool and right.

Then reality kicks back in and we finally start asking for advice.

I learnt early on that most people assume prior knowledge and may either be shocked or annoyed when you can not follow or understand their “seemingly simple idea”.

I also learnt to check from different sources as a different explanation may often hold the key to a nugget of insight.
Early on this was books and magazines and now includes T’internet.
This is very, very true with the Internet, especially wiki-pedia as plagiarism is rife ideas are copied as gospel with no idea as to the actual truth or even understanding the original question!

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Les