I understand

I ‘Understand’
I’m reading a novel titled Cards of Identity these days. One sentence attracted my attention, which is‘well, I understand it, sir, though I couldn’t say what it means.’ This was spoken by a handmaid after her master preaching whole page of words to her. Yes, I acknowledged that those words are much of psychology and philosophy and I even cannot understand. The handmaid told us truth that what the word “understand” really means.

After we listen to tutors’ teaching, study the key to a mathematics problem, read the concept of economy, we always say “I understand”. However, most possibly we understand but be unable to say the meaning. After class dismissed, those knowledge we seem to understand is return to tutors; after study a solution of a problem, we understand but we cannot solve even the same problem; after we learn the economy concept, we understand it but we cannot apply. Those are examples by which I want to illustrate that sometimes we understand without thinking by ourselves. Our ‘understand’ is just a process that you cover the information. The author, tutor and solution lead you cover the information and with following their idea, you’ understand’. However, we cannot say the meaning after that like that handmaid.

Here I do not want to write too much because my eyes are tired. I want to highlight that if we students can do active and critical thinking whenever er come across new ideas, we can really understand it and get a good result in the examination. How to change? I ‘m not sure.