knowledge, fascination and empowerment

Hi Everyone,

It's been a bit quiet around here for a week or two. Maybe the internet downtime has had a role in this.

Anyway, thanks to the 33 of you who contributed to our poll on the TOK aims. I'm particularly interested in the 5/33 score for the first one (I suspect that we would have got a higher score for the last one on responsibilities if we had already spent time on ethics). Actually, what we put up there as the aims was a compressed version of what the actual aims are, so here is the first one in its full glory:

To develop a fascination with the richness of knowledge as a human endeavour, and an understanding of the empowerment that follows from reflecting upon it.

Doesn't that sound grand? I think some discussion on this aim would be great - what you think it means, whether where and when you have become fascinated or felt the force of this empowerment, why you perhaps don't always feel fascinated or empowered, whether it is worth promoting this aim and if so how...

I know - exams, extended essay, CAS evaluation - but that's the lot of the IB student, you need to be a juggler, keep all those plates spinning, don't let the TOK plate fall...