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Picture taken in Ferguson, Missouri
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One reason why IB wants students to take TOK is they want students to know "why they know." After all, the course is called Theory of Knowledge. Everyday, we want to know the ways of knowledge, why some people do what they do. TOK helps us by forcing us to be rational and not being biased, but to thoroughly examine a situation, and use what we know to find out the motives behind something. The IB wants students to be caught up in current events, and the recent events at Ferguson are a perfect example. In Ferguson, a young male named Mike Brown was killed by a police officer. TOK students would be able to examine why the police officer killed Mike Brown. TOK gives students the power of knowledge.
