Compare and contrast knowledge which can be expressed in words/symbols with knowledge that cannot be expressed in this way. Consider Creativity, Action and Science and one or more areas of knowledge?

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Compare and contrast knowledge which can be expressed in words/symbols with knowledge that cannot be expressed in this way. Consider CAS and one or more areas of knowledge?

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Name Jiale Sun

Candidate number:001334-016

School/Center number:1334

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28/05/2011

words count:1361

As an IB student, it is also our responsibility to discuss whether knowledge should be expressed in words (verbal expression) or not. In order to demonstrate this topic properly, I divide my essay into two parts. The first part is to make link between the topic and my real life. Then the second one is to address the knowledge issue : in our IB life, to what extent is verbal expression less reliable than non-verbal? Here I will consider CAS ( Creativity, Action, Science) and Nature Science

So can knowledge be expressed in words/ symbols? Well, when I was a child, my teacher told me: "The most fundamental and useful way to learn Language is to know as many words/ symbols as possible. It just seem as constructing the building, as we know, a stable house needs sufficient number of bricks to build. So if we see a building as