Every thing I need to know I learned from Animaniacs

In preparation for our lovely ToK lessons this September, I began thinking about all the things I learned as a child; the real foundation of the knowledge I carry today. It brought to mind that wonderful poem by Robert Fulghum 'All I really need to know I learned in Kindergarten'. From there, I began to ponder on what I learned in Kindergarten -

1. Don't daydream when you're taking a test because you'll get behind everyone else and won't be able to catch up - even though a daydream is so much better than taking a test.
2. Caterpillars, which are green and kind of ugly like worms, turn into butterflies, which are pretty and can fly.
3. Kids who eat glue are weird. Kids who put glue on their hands, let it dry, and then peel it off like dead skin are tactile.

Weirdly enough, I also began to hear in my head 'Wheel of Morality, turn turn turn, tell us the lesson we should learn...'. Although I didn't watch the Animaniacs until much later in my childhood, I believe quite a bit of sound knowledge can be gained by the Warner Brothers and their Warner Sister Dot.


So here I present you with the beginning of our quest for knowledge - A compilation of all the wheel of moralities brought to your by those lovely Warners.


Happy viewing...see you in September.

Welcome to Theory of Knowledge

Welcome to the wonderful world of Theory of Knowledge at Beaumont School. In this course you will be asked to stretch the limits of your abilities to enquire. Theory of Knowledge is unique in that you will come out of every lesson with more questions than when you walked through the door. In a sense, you will be inviting yourself to engage in a practice of thought provoking, headache inducing, self-imposed reflection on a weekly basis. Unfortunately, you will find that I will not be the most help when it comes to this weekly exercise in mind masochism, as I will the the one person in the room most unwilling to give you the answers you will come to seek with increasing desperation.

So, lets begin with an easy one....What is knowledge?