Also, if there's a topic you would like JC to address, let us know . February 1994 We have all heard it said that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. The word applies to facts told, read, or communicated, and which may be unorganized or even unrelated. A synonym is data.
Some synonyms are comprehension or understanding.
Knowledge is an organized body of information, or the comprehension and understanding as a result of having acquired an organized a body of facts. At first blush, these are quite similar. After thinking about them a bit, however, it would seem that information does not require knowledge, but knowledge does need information. This non-aviator has all the information but he does not have the knowledge needed to perform the pilot operations required on the practical test. The examiner's task is to see to it that the applicant does.