I think that before I go ahead and attempt to rank my 6 IB subjects, it’s important to come up with a definition or idea of what ‘quality knowledge’ means. Is it simply knowledge that has come from multiple sources (‘ways of knowing’), hence bringing with it a corroborated and reliable ‘truth’.
Or is it experiencing and learning knowledge in a new, higher-order method (one of the 8 ways of knowledge not previously practiced – done so in an effective manner so as to learn forever how to grasp and gain knowledge via that method, removing the restrictions of forever learning the truth through a few cookie-cutter methods?
Learning and acquiring knowledge for me, has often been a matter of combining reasoning with experience, understanding the core components of how something works and why it works – before learning it’s applications through practice and experiences. In this respect, I have a hard time utilizing faith, or even imagination as a method through which to learn (i.e. creative insights, for instance, being something that I struggle to arrive at – as well as to take concepts at face value – something which might be necessary in the case of abstract thoughts which may not have physical evidence, or onto which logical reasoning may not readily be applied onto.
Thus, for me, the highest quality knowledge that can be gained is not the depth nor breadth, but the way in which I’m learning it. Hence, I arranged my subjects in the following order:
- English Lit [creative insight and imagination, as well as the reliance on emotion, is often a necessary part of the learning / truly understanding a particular novel or piece of text. Hence I am able to exercise that part of my brain and that kind of thinking].
2. Computer Science
3. Mathematics (Analysis and Interpretation)
4. Economics
5. Spanish
6. SL Physics
