Is abstract knowledge incompatible with literal memorization?

Should one spent huge amounts of money in order to learn the mechanism by which human knowledge expands?

• Teachers misguide the public. Teachers say that students have to pay a huge amount of money to them if students want to expand their knowledge. Public also think that they have to pay a lot of money and respect if they want to expand their knowledge. Many students cry that they have to read volumes of books and periodicals in order to expand their knowledge. A close analysis reveals the following irrefutable facts: 1. You will discover the same laws of nature in anything and everything. 2. Majority of the teachers do not know the mechanism by which human knowledge expands. Yet, they talk on knowledge expansion. How can a teacher who does not know the mechanism by which human knowledge instruct students to expand their knowledge? It is a question which has to be answered by the teaching community. 3. The teaching community offers no refutation to the KNOWLEDGE EXPANSION MANUAL. The KEM illustrates the mechanism by which human knowledge expands. Yet, the teachers do not want to teach students the mechanism by which human knowledge expands. The teaching community is terrified with the KEM because it illustrates how one can systematically expand his/her knowledge about anything. 4. KEM enjoys less support from the teaching community because it makes students more independent in expanding his or her knowledge and less dependent on teachers and books. 5. You can expand your knowledge about anything even in the absence of teachers and books.

• Answer:

  Since when did teachers suggest that the public needs to pay them a lot of money? I do not think the teachers are in charge of this. Furthermore, the public chooses to pay the school fees because they believe in the education system and the function it provides in society. Students read book and periodicals because they believe that this is a legitimate way to obtain certain information, which it is. Yes, when it comes to these "laws" and a lot of other information, it is available in the public domain, but education allows its recipients to access and apply these "laws" in a meaningful way. Knowledge expansion does not have a fixed mechanism, there is no universal mechanism that everyone can subscribe to, different people have different ways of acquiring knowledge and teachers give individualized attention to each and everyone of them. Teachers and books make knowledge accessible and teaches us how to wield such knowledge.