“Let Me Show You The World”

Abstract

The difference between learning to gain awareness and learning to gain insight might appear largely semantic, but there is a subtle and important distinction. Awareness indicates an increase in general knowledge about, or experience with, something new. It is the kind of learning we expect every student to acquire if engaged with a creatively developed, content- rich curriculum. Insight enhances that knowledge by providing new ways of seeing and understanding based upon this new awareness and experience. Another personal anecdote will help illustrate the distinction.

“Much learning does not teach understanding.”

—Heraclitus