learnig and mankind

This was a wonderful read and just made me so happy you have absoluetly no idea. I wish there was a a sarcasm font because i know this is supposed to be enjoyable but boy o boy this is just not me."Collabrative learning and the conversation of mankind" by Kenneth Bruffee was looking into the issue about collabrative learning in the classrooms. What i grasped to be the main point of this article, in which really i have no intrest in since i am almost dont with my education (thank goodness), was how knowledge is ultimately derived. Is knowledge gained through interaction, are we born with it, or is it a gift that we are given?

I honestly believe that the way we gain knowledge is different for everyone because some people learn by interacting with others and expressing ideas and others gain knowledge from reading and practing what they have learned. Of course we are given the ability to think and make decisions for ourselves otherwise we would be like zombies just doing what we are told or mopping around acting idiotic. I sometimes feel like i am a zombie during school in general because i am just trying to do the bare necessity to scrap by and do absolutely no thinking. Sometimes thinking hurts, especially when it is something you really really do not care anything about.

If it was for interaction in some of my class i would probably hate each and every class because most of the ones i am in currently are very boring and uninteresting to me. This leads my mind to wander and for me not to give an iota of care for anything that the professor says. I definitely like to work in groups because the input of others help to come to a conclusion quicker in most cases and the distribution of work allows for more information to be discovered in a shorter period of time and allow for an answer to be found quicker. But then on the other hand i dont mind working on my own because i can count on myself and honestly do not have much faith in others since i like things done my way.