Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Chapter 5

Journal Entry # 5
What benefits do you receive when you have opportunities to share what you are reading with others? What ways of sharing do you enjoy the most?


Knowledge is meant to be shared. Unlike material possessions, knowledge will not be depleted when it is shared with others. In fact, the more people we share our knowledge with, the deeper our understanding about the subject will be. Different people have different ways of looking at things so when we share our readings with others we get different feedback and see the same issue in different perspectives.

Besides improving our own understanding about certain issues, we can also help others solving their problems by relating the solutions mentioned in our readings which deals with similar problems faced by the people we are sharing with. I believe that helping others is a form of therapy because it gives us a sense of usefulness and purpose in our lives.

I have shared the novels which I read for this class with my eldest son who is thirteen years old, my husband, and friends. There are many ways of sharing what we are reading with others such as through discussing the issues with a group of friends or students, sending emails, writing in electronic and conventional journals, writing book reviews in the newspaper, being a member of a book club, and chatting on the internet. Personally, I like sharing by talking directly to others because in that way I get immediate feedback and it is really satisfying.

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