By writing logs, students are encouraged to organize information in ways that clearly show that they understood readings, abbreviated lectures, and seminar discussions. Students are ask to share their logs with one other person in the class on a weekly basis before handing them to faculty for additional comments. Thus, students obtain feedback from both their peers as well as faculty. Both the direct violent application of knowledge as well as its by-products are perhaps at the root cause of many social and environmental problems we experience today. Violence to the planet manifests itself in the clear-cutting of forest, causing erosion of precious soil.
Acid rain destroys thousands of lakes and forests in the U.S., Canada, and throughout the world.
The depletion of the ozone layer increases our risks to skin cancer. The production of toxic chemicals, many of which are hormone disrupters or may cause toxic-induced or aggregated diseases, threatens our very survival of present and future generations. These are examples of violent and nonsustainable aspects of knowledge or its by- products that threaten our very existence here on planet Earth. Knowledge can Reduce Jobs. Scientific knowledge is used to create new technology such as computers driven machines.