Beginnings and Endings

If you want to understand something, go to the beginning.
If you want to know something, go to the end.

The difference between understanding and knowing is as vast as that between a PC and an Einstein…between a spreadsheet and the Mona Lisa…the classroom and the concert hall. If understanding is defined as the mental image of a thing, then knowing is the experience of the thing itself. Still, understanding often precedes knowing just as beginnings precede endings, so priorities are nicely est...