The Paths To Knowledge
The Paths To Knowledge In my father's language, French, there are two verbs to say “to know” which are " savoir " and " connaître " and they are interchanged all the time. However, the following example illustrates the fundamental difference between these two types of knowledge: we can say, about someone, "I know who this person is but I don't know him". This expression indicates that one knowledge is more passive and informational, whereas the other is more active and experiential. The living character of the latter is rightly reflected in the expressions "know-how" (“ savoir-faire ”) and "knowing how to be" (“ savoir-être ”), and an old proverb from the Kemetic (traditional African) tradition illustrates this reality: "the dust of the buttocks is not worth the dust of the feet". But despite the wisdom of our ancestors, today, knowledge and knowing continue to be confused. It took the Internet barely 30 years to ca...