What you don’t know can hurt you

There are a lot of statements I hear that make me shake my head in disbelief. They might sound good at the moment, but really, they don’t stand up in the face of logic. The statement, ‘What you don’t know can’t hurt you’, if it were true, would make the acquiring of knowledge a moot point. If that statement were true, then why spend all those years learning all those things you didn’t know?

The truth of the matter is, what you don’t know can most certainly hurt you. There are many things I’m glad I know just for the simple reason that, if I didn’t, I would be in a world of hurt. Our schooling is meant for the purpose to send us out into the world well-equipped to be as successful as we can be. The ‘ignorance is bliss’ school of thought is as short-sighted as the people who subscribe to it. If that were really true, I would be best served by remaining as ignorant as possible. And admittedly, in some ways I am ignorant. But it’s that understanding that at least allows me to realize that I need to begin to learn something. It’s the idea of knowing what you don’t know. For some people, they don’t even know what they don’t know. Put more simply, they don’t know how much they don’t know.

An extreme example would be someone, with no training whatsoever, watching a doctor perform brain surgery and thinking to himself, “Well, that doesn’t look so hard. Maybe I can jump in and help on the next surgery.” For someone to think that to themselves would only illustrate how little they know about the whole process. They don’t know the years of training required, the vast amounts of knowledge that doctor had to digest, much less the skill required to do the job. In this case, what that person doesn’t know would not only hurt them, but the person needing the surgery. I pity the patient who would be subjected to that person’s scalpel.
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The fact of the matter is, our well-trained doc who went through the training and hard work to become a skilled surgeon is also not likely to take that knowledge lightly. He’s also not going to take the responsibility that comes with it lightly. He understands that his training had a purpose. It doesn’t just happen. There’s a value in knowledge obtained. And what he learned to do, he also learned to put into practice. His knowledge wasn’t just some intellectual feather to put in his cap. He learned it for the practical purpose of doing it.

As for the, ‘ignorance is bliss’ ideology, I’m glad my doctor doesn’t believe it. And I shouldn’t believe it either. The weight of responsibility to do what I know shouldn’t scare me away from learning more. Even if I don’t know it, I’m still responsible to learn it. Not knowing it doesn’t help me, I’m responsible regardless.

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