Robert Sasarman
Dat Vinh Tran
Robert:
"We have been discussing over the past days about knowledge and the power of it. As you also said, we can correlate it with our curiosity and the desire of doing or experimenting something new. Through curiosity we have the urge to learn, to acquire facts and knowledge; we ask more questions, we explore.
Contrary to this, while doing some research, I thought about my own experience and childhood where I remembered how my grandmother used to take me to different churches and monasteries, to listen to prayers and God's words. If I look back at it now, with different mentality and knowledge, the church and religion itself had an important part in people's life and the way the lived throughout the history and, for a lot of them, the desire and curiosity was exactly the opposite to the ideologies of the church. There is also a word in the bible that says, "believe and do not doubt", which tells us that we should not search for answers, we should just listen. I have been looking back at my country, with different mentality and point of view and there is still a visible lack of education and knowledge among the population because of this, especially in the older generation that were very religious and sticked to the church rules.
These days I have been walking around looking for places where this ideology is still visible, where churches were the main education and belief. I was surprised to end up in a chapel that looked like a classroom, where small tables were placed next to each other, where people are still being given education and information in this manner.
In my opinion knowledge is indeed a power that can be used in different ways, and the desire of knowing more changed the way we live, think or act."
Contrary to this, while doing some research, I thought about my own experience and childhood where I remembered how my grandmother used to take me to different churches and monasteries, to listen to prayers and God's words. If I look back at it now, with different mentality and knowledge, the church and religion itself had an important part in people's life and the way the lived throughout the history and, for a lot of them, the desire and curiosity was exactly the opposite to the ideologies of the church. There is also a word in the bible that says, "believe and do not doubt", which tells us that we should not search for answers, we should just listen. I have been looking back at my country, with different mentality and point of view and there is still a visible lack of education and knowledge among the population because of this, especially in the older generation that were very religious and sticked to the church rules.
These days I have been walking around looking for places where this ideology is still visible, where churches were the main education and belief. I was surprised to end up in a chapel that looked like a classroom, where small tables were placed next to each other, where people are still being given education and information in this manner.
In my opinion knowledge is indeed a power that can be used in different ways, and the desire of knowing more changed the way we live, think or act."
Dat:
"I think food and knowledge have a similarity because if we absorb one of these two things too much, it will adversely affect our mind and body. Knowledge is useful only if it is used in the daily life of the person just like food is useful when it’s nutrients and calories are used by the person. The consumption of these two is depends on our lifestyle and profession.
Couple months ago, when I was on the trip for two weeks, I saw that in difference places, there are difference shapes of rock, and I got curious about that. That’s why I chose to go to the geological museum in my city."
"I think food and knowledge have a similarity because if we absorb one of these two things too much, it will adversely affect our mind and body. Knowledge is useful only if it is used in the daily life of the person just like food is useful when it’s nutrients and calories are used by the person. The consumption of these two is depends on our lifestyle and profession.
Couple months ago, when I was on the trip for two weeks, I saw that in difference places, there are difference shapes of rock, and I got curious about that. That’s why I chose to go to the geological museum in my city."