133. French novelist Anatole France wrote: "An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't." What don't you know? (Brown)
As a class we were going to write an essay in AP English, the questions asked us to qualify, defend or oppose a sentence from a paragraph of the Dalai Lama speech spoken at the University of Illinois. At the end of the paragraph, his holiness said “You cannot know everything.” I did not know which sentence to write one, I did not know if and how I would make an outline, I did not know have any other sources to prove my point. I did not if I could finch writing an essay at the end of 30 minutes of class time. That last line got me thinking into a state mind that I could not think.
I do not how my day will end, I do not want to think of what will happen, I do not know what will happen after school and in college, I do not know if the college I go to, that is if I do, will be the best option. I do not what will happen to me after this year, and the years to come, I have no idea if global warming will rise, and all major cities on the coast line will be submerged, I do not know if the global economy will crash and the United states of America and other European countries in debt at the moment will become bankrupt. I do not how modern radical thinkers will have solution for other world wide problems. I do not want to have all the answers to everything because there is just to much learn, and the subject does not feel that interesting if there id nothing that I do not know. I do not know, what I do not know, because I do not want to know what I should not know.
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