Democratization of Knowledge

I was just wondering how the world has evolved the way we learn today, or the way we should be learning today, in comparison to the way we learned in the past, say, since as early as a decade back. A decade back, only privileged ones had access to “esoteric” knowledge or information, and that’s too at the cost of hundreds of grand in college fees.

In today’s world, just any Tom, Dick, or for that matter even Harry can KNOW about anything, using the Internet, thus, leading to the democratization of knowledge. So, now, it’s imperative for all of us to NOT just know of things, but to really UNDERSTAND things, because if we don’t do so, we will land up being just fools, since the information is now freely available at the click of a mouse.

Moreover, the so-called great professors at big campuses need to impart real education in terms of real values. They just cannot afford to give very mundane definitions of big jargons, and be considered “big guns.” This is more prevalent in India -- because I know it by experience.

So, the gist of this is that any fool can know; the point is to understand.