Knowledge vs. Understanding
"Because the units of knowledge are concepts, and concepts can be conveyed and transmitted in words and symbols, knowledge itself can be passed between persons. Understanding, on the other hand, is intimate and subjective, not a conceptual container but an aura of immediacy cast upon an experience—which means it cannot be transmitted and transacted like knowledge.
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“Our forebears devised ways of transmitting knowledge from one generation to the next—in words and symbols, in stories and equations—which ensured the survival of our species by preserving and passing down the results of experience. But knowing the results of an experience is not the same as understanding the experience itself." — Maria Popova; Brain Pickings—Love is the Last Word: Aldous Huxley on Knowledge vs. Understanding and the Antidote to Our Existential Helplessness
Dan Hillier
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