“The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.” ― Albert Einstein
When I was green and in my salad days, a teenager, like all of that age I thought I knew it all. The world of school is small. It’s confined by the syllabus, what your teachers think you need to know to be able to survive in this world. At the end of your education you take, and hopefully pass, examinations based on that syllabus. Hey presto, you get a certificate that tells the world “The bearer knows it all”. He or she has remembered all those things that are necessary to know.

For now.

Very quickly, if you have any intelligence, you find out you do, in fact, need to know more things. It may be the specialised knowledge necessary to do your job. It might be an understanding of finances as buy your first car on instalments. Ah ha! You find you need to know about compound interest, particularly when you take out your first mortgage. Then there’s a myriad of little things like changing nappies, sharpening lawnmowers, putting up shelves and cooking. You need to know more and more and more.

Knowledge is a little like the process of fractalisation; the closer you look, the more things there are to look at. As Alexander Pope wrote, “A little learning is a dangerous thing, Drink deep or taste not that Pierian Spring”. As your question states, “The more you know the more you find you need to know”. When you leave school your knowledge quotient is 100%. As you realise you need to know extra stuff that quotient decreases because you have found out there’s more to learn. Much more. Learning never stops. And thank fortune for that. Life won’t become boring,

“The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.” ― Albert Einstein When I was green and in my salad days, a teenager, like all of that age I thought I knew it all. The world of sc...