Education & Knowledge

Element IV: The Human Being

Knowing, learning and understanding will be lifelong pursuits in your practice of LIFECRAFT. The knowledge of humankind is growing so fast and there are so many things to learn and know it is more than any one person could possibly keep up with.

For many centuries scholars have outlined a variety of different schemes to classify the various branches of human knowledge. The way in which the branches of knowledge have been distinguished from one another and related to one another -- has changed remarkably from age to age. In antiquity, the view was that the whole of human knowledge had a certain structure of related parts or subdivisions. The organization of knowledge in medieval times was quite different in its pattern. Later still other changes entered the picture; and that picture has changed in important respects during the last century and is undergoing further changes today.

To help you as a craftsperson in your life long pursuit of knowledge, the following table is from the Encyclopedia Britannica's "Propaedia: Outline of Knowledge" in ten parts, each of which is broken down into divisions and sections (not included here). It is called "The Circle of Learning." A circle because it is a shape in which no point is either a beginning or an end and on which lines can be drawn from any one point to the other. There are no impenetrable barriers to communication or unbridgeable breaks in continuity. It is the idea that knowledge is a single universe of many stars.

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