"Knowledge began in ancient greece, in the Agora, the open market, where affairs of state were decided. Anyone (white, male, property owners) could stand up and speak. Knowledge it justified, true, belief (Plato). Nature of Knoweldge * We assume that there is one knowledge * Knowledge is neatly organized (a tree of knowledge) * We need experts to know the knowledge * Those experts will have power. This sounds like industrial age schools and too much like the definition of knowledge that we continue to rely on in our education system. ..and perhaps this doesn’t seem as ridiculous to most people as it does to me. Think of Melvil Dewey, of the dewey decimal system. 88 numbers for christian religion, one for judism, muslem and all related get one number, and budhists go to the right of the decimal place. I guess this is what happens when we treat knowledge/information as objects to be placed neatly in bins, based on a 10 digit grid. “This is not a solvable problem. There is not one knowledge.” bang! Four basic principals of organization"