Wednesday, June 11, 2008

The Fable of Foibles (The Fallibility of Knowledge)



While global economic experts debate on such real considerations as Gross National Income (GNI) Per Capita, Purchasing Power Parity (PPP$), Actual Final Consumption Expenditure (AFCE), etc., the typical Filipino rural child does not even think if the water he drinks from the communal shallow tube well is safe, whether his parents will allow him to still attend classes this coming planting season when his manual help in the farm is absolutely needed, or if he can still manage to walk the muddy roads to school at daybreak because a mudslide is surely to occur again this year. It may not even cross his mind that he is very rarely able to drink milk because his father would rather pump up the gamecock with multivitamins.

Knowledge is lost on those who are truly informed.

A little knowledge, indeed, is a dangerous thing.



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