The intellectual, social, and ethical qualities we develop from our relationship with the vital system of ideas not only enhance the quality of life, but protect us from the dangers of overwhelm, oversimplification, and overconformity.

 

Without this knowledge our thoughts and actions are limited to impulse and routine, or, chaos and confusion, negatively impacting the effective management of our social-institutions.

Without a knowledge of the vital system of ideas and how they're related and tied together by explanation, without an awareness of their influence on our social-interaction, we lack perspective, both contemporary and historical.

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We lack a technique of learning that will enable us to analyze a body of data and identify and examine its structure in a time-appropriate manner.

We're much less able to make valid connections between people, places, and things.

We'll lack self-awareness and the joy that comes from learning, not to mention the strength and stamina needed for change and growth, in a complex and unpredictable world.

On the other hand, with a reasonable amount of knowledge of the vital system of ideas we'll have the intellectual qualities of perspective, technique of learning, self-awareness, flexibility and growth.

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We'll have the social qualities of emotional comprehension of others, and ourselves, and the sensitivity to the diversity of human emotional experience.

We'll have the ethical qualities of the desire to discover what is true and good and the desire to put these values into practice.

There's so much we can do with a knowledge of the vital system of ideas. Just as there's so much we can't do without that knowledge.

The choice is ours and the readiness is all.