Abuse of knowledge.

For every child or adult, using knowledge gained through understanding of experience, can lead to praiseworthy, mind development.

Even for the naughty and the pampered, it is still praiseworthy mind development to be capable to use knowledge gained from everyday experience to manoeuvre their parents or to achieve certain goals.

But, sometimes naughty and pampered children with such intelligence developed through their experiences, may abuse the use of such knowledge with advantageous manoeuvre to their disadvantage when they manage to have parents allow them to be undisciplined and lazy.

I know of a child who would pretend to have a headache each time his sister wanted to tutor him on any school subject. He faked his headache so well that his parents were usually too worried to have him continue studying. It pained his parents to see their beloved child suffer just to complete some home-work or learn a new topic.

It started with a real headache one evening. His parents were worried at the sight of his contorted face expressing the pain he then felt. They were worried and got him to lie down while they searched for some pain-killer. His pain gradually went away with the help of some food taken before swallowing two tablets of panadol.

Since then, each time they wanted him to study, he had ready the perfect escape from his dreaded studies.

Unfortunately for that child, his parents were concerned but not knowledgeable enough to send him for a medical check-up. Perhaps, the truth could then be known, and remedial action could still be taken.

As a result of the child’s abuse of this knowledge of his parents, he avoided having to study as hard as his siblings and soon his results deteriorated. He ended up less literate than his siblings. As we can see, the advantage of gaining that knowledge has lead to the disadvantage of being semi-literate.

Thus, knowledge on its own, without the wisdom of farsightedness or that of knowing parents, is not necessarily an advantage.

Knowledge is only useful when correctly applied. Knowledge, just like fire can brighten our world or burn and destroy our future. Do you agree with that?