ABSTRACT
Fortunate is the man who takes the right measure of himself and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use. Hamilton was a sincere young man from the Midwest. He struggled in his class, so he asked him to come in for help. He learned his story as we worked together that semester. He have had many suggestions about Hamilton’s problem, the most common one being that he had some sort of learning disability. In a generic sense, it is hard to disagree with that diagnosis. He was disabled in some way. The process of changing data into knowing is what Kolb calls “transformation of experience.” The “information age” is itself a major factor in this pressure toward acquiring. Notice that we do not call it the “understanding age.” In this era it often seems that information itself is the highest value; the more we have, the better.
