In perfecting one's knowledge...

Investigation of things, as for Chu Hsi, is the very act of perfecting, or simply refining one's knowledge. According to him, it is the primal area of education, for one must be able to carry out the principle of extending one's own knowledge in order for him/her to somehow understand why one is in need to study and learn. Well, if one will ask about what is the purpose of his/her efforts in knowing various, wide ranging things, actually, it is for him/her to tighten up his/her intelligence for him/her not to be ignorant enough and can be able to see things more clearly the world and all it's compositions around him/her.

But then again, we must be careful, for not all the sources of knowledge are to be taken an account for, especially now in the age of virtually-simulated, at the same time easily-accessed information, where one can manage to alter a certain knowledge that is maybe based on a certain bias, or where one can somehow make up knowledge, where in fact, is not knowledge at all. That is why there is the need to "investigate" in whether one knowledge is really a knowledge or not. How? By conducting an intensive examination to those of the things we interact with. When we see within such interaction somehow a justification of our knowledge, we will then consider it to be one-step closer to that of true knowledge. But in the case that it is not, then it is indeed one-step behind of certainty.

Now, there is a need for us to investigate and somehow explore things more.  If one then is not able to investigate more knowledge, what he/she knows is "still incomplete" (Chu Hsi).

That is why, in this short life of ours, we must somehow begin investigating and make our erudition stretched out, for we don't know when will be the last discussion we will hear from our teachers, or when will be the last lessons of our lives come. And as far as I am concerned, Nobody wants to die knowing that what they know is incomplete. Maybe that's the reason most of the dying people say when they mean that their mission in life is not yet finished. Thus, I say to you, let's go out there and feed our minds with intellect, for us to be contended and could therefore die without any intellectual disappointments, for we have already know what it is to be known, hence, our knowledge is indeed impeccable, -perfect.