Sunday, March 13, 2011

What Makes Humans Smarter Than Animals

By Jenny Browning


Humans constantly keep comparing themselves with others and get satisfaction when a mental note of who is better is done. But with animals it is a different case as they are instinctual creatures and hardly aware of each others existence.

Humans have the concept of understanding embodied in them and thus can tell right from wrong. We can also understand things in such a way that we give them a unique identification and can differentiate.

Students are thrown in to a whole new world with a major amount of information. They are expected to understand the information and based on sound reasoning choose what they want to pursue.

Remember not to ask questions with out any meaning as this will become an idle conversation. A good question with a thought behind it gives you greater knowledge although you may have to encounter more confusion and further questions in the process.

A knowledge enhancing question is one that gets you thinking. There are 3 types namely: Judgmental, definitive and non-definitive questions. Definitive questions are the easiest and give you a straight right or wrong.

Answers to a definitive question are straight forward and can not be changed from which ever angle you look at your arguments and point of view. As Aristotle said, "A is A".

Questions some time occur as non definitive ones and need greater reasoning. You might have noticed some one freezing up on being asked a question because he needs to do away with the confusion and get facts straight before he can frame an answer that will satisfy your curiosity to the fullest extent.

There are also the judgmental questions which can be answered correctly from many different points of views. These thus require the complete collaboration of varied group of people from different schools of thought to collaborate and come out with a socially acceptable answer that satisfies the masses.




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