On Monday I couldn’t decide what the quote “Writing is admitting you don’t know anything” meant. To me, writers always seem like they knew more than your average person (if they wrote really good stuff). Nonfiction and fiction writers always seemed to be very insightful, fiction writers especially. So when Mr. Everett said that line, it left me very confused.
When we went to the interview on Tuesday in class, he pretty much answered it for me: Once you start writing, you realize how little you know.
After hearing that, I wondered why that didn’t come to me before as the meaning, but I guess it all depends on how you approach it.
Once you begin looking into what you want to write about, I suppose you realize things are much deeper than you thought. Researching one thing leads to another, you find connections and get even more questions in your mind. You realize how small things can be, and how truly big the world is.
I’ve learned that getting into this project. I knew at the start I didn’t know anything about public schools or their policies. Trying to research and go even deeper into the topic, I realize how small my mindset was when entering. Coming out of it, maybe I’ll be able to say “I really don’t know anything about school assessment”. ;)
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Very insightful. One of the worst (and best) things about higher education is this realization, that you're talking about now, that the more you know the less it seems to know. Your boundaries of knowledge expand to such a degree that you find out what a drop in the pond your current knowledge is. It's bittersweet, really.
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