Effectiveness Of Dunning 's Argument

When reading Anthony’s article, I believe that he was more convincing than Baum. Anthony broke down the article in a way that connected with people on a personal level that

“There is a thing called knowledge of the world, which people do not have until they are middle-aged. It is something which cannot be taught to younger people, because it is not logical and does not obey laws which are constant. It has no rules” (T.H. White).

Knowledge is something that we know that you have facts to back up to form your argument and is justified. Knowledge isn’t something that can be created overnight but something that we form over the course of life. I feel that being raised by my grandmother I gained a lot of knowledge and wisdom because she has years and experience over me and wouldn’t tell me anything to hurt me but to help me in life. We all learn from mistakes but with mistakes gain wisdom then knowledge. We don’t gain knowledge overnight but with growth we become more aware of our worldview.

Mike Rose argument was different in terms of content and the evidence he used. Rose is trying to explain that our culture has a series of assumption towards intelligence. We assume “intelligence is closely associated with formal education- the type of schooling a person has”. People now believe that work requiring less schooling requires less intelligence. He’s saying this assumption is wrong. He uses anecdotes from his personal experiences and historical stories about his family accomplishments has evidence to clarify and support his argument. I think his argument his convincing based on the way he use step by step examples to describe how each family member didn’t have much schooling to being successful. For instance; his mom was only a waitress, but during her work experience she solved both technical problems and human problems very well. Joe was a foreman who learnt more and more about the auto industry (the machinery and production process). With further promotion has a supervisor he solved more problems and also found more problems to solve. Overall, many kinds of physical work don’t require a high literacy level, but it requires much reading. Workers may lack formal education or knowledge, but they are not less intelligence. These workers gain hands on knowledge through direct experience which made

Gwen Wilde uses her writing technique in her essay to give a well written argument that I think would definitely convince her target

Proverbs 14:8 The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.

writer/speaker way to try to convince the audience of something without having to provide specific facts//reasons

“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives” ~ James Madison

Another more noticeable persuasive element that Banneker applies is the usage of quotes. Banneker uses numerous quotes

He uses research in order to get his point across and it shows that he does know what he is talking about.

The article, Teaching Humility in an Age of Arrogance written by Michael Patrick Lynch, starts off his article by first defining humility and arrogance. Thinking that you know it all and you don’t need to improve because you know everything or are great already, is an arrogant way of thinking. He believes the major reason Americans think this way is because of technology. The Internet gives us so much information that we cannot as humans explain it ourselves. We over estimate our knowledge about the world and at the end of the day; humans are not machines that know everything. Lynch stated it is a good thing we do not know everything because together everyone knowledge can know “quite a bit.” Lynch mentions that we either know it or it

Ignorance tends to play a big role when it comes to claiming knowledge. Often times people think that the amount of knowledge they have is enough and that it is unnecessary to expand it. In regard to people who think they know something when they don’t, Socrates says, “For they do not

Having a surplus amount of knowledge is often seen as something that is desired. But, sometimes having knowledge that

Socrates, in skepticism, began a search for those with a reputation of wisdom. After studying men and their knowledge, he reasoned that the only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing. Although one may have extensive understanding in one area, there is way too much knowledge in the world to be contained by one man. Socrates stated, “I found that the men most in repute were all but the most foolish, and that some inferior men were really wiser and better” (Plato, 23). Those who believed that they knew it all could not be more ignorant, and those who admitted ignorance achieved the highest wisdom attainable on earth. Socrates accepted the idea that he, just like all men, contained very little or no wisdom at all. He was content with knowing this, and upon meeting others that lacked this philosophy, felt he was superior to them. He was unsure of the limitations the afterlife had on wisdom, but he was aware of it’s constraints on earth. This self awareness is what gifted him with the highest sense of enlightenment.

As the great Socrates ones said, that by admiting that you dont know anything, so you can learn something that is how I discover the things that I want to know. The only way of knowing things is the way of becoming conscious of our unknowing, so we can learn. Awareness of the unknowing is the beginning of knowledge. Thus, we can always look for the truth, but the best is if never said that we found it. We may just think of the truth. We may think of what is the truth different in mathematics, the arts and ethics, but let’s never be sure. That is the only way how we are going to become bigger and better people.