I have been thinking on the general hierachy and structure of both the management and student bodies of St Peters School, and the more I think the more I believe there is an inbalance in the way student views are represented reletive to management opinions. The inbalance is due to one simple fact - the collective view and opinion of the student body as a whole is poorly represented, if at all.
What I am suggesting is the introduction of a management-student hierachy, a democracy - a system where everybody has a say at the very least. I have created a few preliminary sketches and diagrams around this, and will be following up the idea of a 'student council', as such, once I have put in a little more work and gone into more depth around the issue.
The question, as always at this point, is how does this relate to TOK? Management do not already have a student council in place, which means either they think they know what the general POV of the student body is or they do not believe this opinion will make a difference to their decisions within the school. I am going to assume that the first statement is correct (because, if it wasn't, quite frankly I would be very worried about the running of the school), and in that lies the question. How do we know what we know? More applicably, how do THEY know what they know? Something that will certainly be explored via further probing I am sure :)
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February 14, 2010
TOK Journal #3, Date of Writing: 14/02/10, Topic: The Choice of Knowledge
A few days ago in TOK class, we watched the first 30 minutes or so of a movie called "The Matrix." Towards the end of this 30 minute segment, Neo (the main charcter) is offered a choice.
MORPHEUS: "This is your last chance. After this, there is no going back. You take the blue pill and the
story ends. You wake in your bed and you believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill.... and you stay in Wonderland. I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes."
The choice Morpheus offers Neo boils down to this: knowing, or not knowing. I, personally, would chose the red pill - this is because it is in my nature, as a human, to both desire knowing and fear not knowing. Further, i believe that the vast majority of humans would make the same choice as myself, because, again, it is our nature to do so.
How does this relate to Epistemology? Morpheus is questioning the same thing TOK questions: how do we know what we know? I believe the answer is evident: we don't.
MORPHEUS: "This is your last chance. After this, there is no going back. You take the blue pill and the
story ends. You wake in your bed and you believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill.... and you stay in Wonderland. I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes."
The choice Morpheus offers Neo boils down to this: knowing, or not knowing. I, personally, would chose the red pill - this is because it is in my nature, as a human, to both desire knowing and fear not knowing. Further, i believe that the vast majority of humans would make the same choice as myself, because, again, it is our nature to do so.
How does this relate to Epistemology? Morpheus is questioning the same thing TOK questions: how do we know what we know? I believe the answer is evident: we don't.
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