KNOWLEDGE IS NOT ENOUGH

WEEK 10:
“Knowing things is good, but recognizing how these things function is better.”

I considered this week as a week of practicality and application. Our Machine Shop (MaShop) instructor, 1AE Renee Cabatan, gave us the first group project which is about the application of different bench tools. We grouped ourselves randomly and assigned a leader for each group. My groupmates had chosen me to be their leader, so I take the responsibility. Our project made us apply our knowledge about the different bench tools, and it enhanced our skills while we were having our hands on. It developed our own techniques on how to finish our project in a safe and comfortable way, but with much accuracy.

As a leader, I assigned each of my members to do a certain work. I see to it that all of us are taking part from our project. While working, I found out that more hands are better than one—that there’s satisfaction if everybody contributed his own sweat for the accomplishment of something. There is actually joy in work only if one knows how to find that joy on it, and I and the rest of my groupmates found it while we are working.

Thus, it is not necessary for someone to know everything. What matter most is that he knows why and how a certain thing happened for this could be appreciated more.