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John Jung. F Block

Question: ”Does learning a lot truths and knowledge in a fast period of time make a bad influence on one?"

Title: Learning knowledge and truths fast and lot is not a sin.


 * Learning truths, facts, and knowledge in a short period of time usually benefits one's future and development.** It lead to a huge impact in the future. In “By the Waters of Babylon”, at the passage where it said that “During the old days they used to learn knowledge too fast”, this sentence made me a bit interesting and made me think a bit more deeply about it. It is of course, just a sentence to keep on going with the author’s idea. However, it is also a sentence for me to think many things. First, I think that learning fast is not always bad. Of course there will be some cases that you must and are highly recommended to learn slowly and carefully. However, in my opinion and for many times if you are accurate and a fast learner at the same time, you cannot say that learning a lot of knowledge in a short term period is bad. I came up with two evidence for my point. They are all just knowledges that I heard as I was growing up. I saw a news in BBC that in U.S military they learn basic from complex things such as putting weapon parts together and driving a helicopter for about in a half a year. However, Korean Military learn that in a month and be a well prepared troop for later. They did not have any hard time but they say that they just learned what the veteran taught. Another example is the difference between the countries in the western and Korea; the development from agriculture to information oriented society and further more which we are now making, the ubiquitous computing. Korea had developed for about a half a century to make a society which is similar to the society what West has now but the West have been developing for about two centuries to try to make a society which is now. It is one of the true fact that learning fast and trying to know many of truths have more benefits than not. There will be people who come up with the idea, because U.S helped the south of Korea and Russia helped the North and they developed by they help and the economy shows the truths. However, as the country accepted their help and changed in few parts to submit in their own cultures, that is the result that they get with the majority of things doing by themselves. Accordingly, fast learners and knowing many truths benefits you most of the time.