Information vs. Knowledge

Its simple, the difference of information versus knowledge, Right? To my best understanding, information refers to a general base of data that can be shown as numbers, words, pictures, sounds and things such as that. Knowledge, however is the usage of this information. Information can be stored and share throughout, whereas knowledge is considered more on a personal level. To seperate better, imagine two biology classmates. The student reading the material will learn and share information, however the other student that is conducting the activity, will be the one personally having knowledge of it. I see the difference quite easy, however is it that clear to other people? The only reason is because the difference is seen daily. For instance, a person can study, study, study the human analogy with every intents of being a doctor someday. However, would you trust them to do a surgery without hands-on training? (knowledge)  On a smaller scale, I find this very similier situation in my life a couple years ago. I was umpiring with a new guy, Josh, that had never played baseball in his life. You could tell he was manager (or mascot) material, or a stats guy. Meaning, the guy was statistically smart when it came to baseball. He knew the rules and the ways of the game. However, he's never personally experienced the game. Due to his lack of decision making as an umpire, he was banned from umpiring in our league again. Point being, he knew all the information of baseball and how its played, but he never trully got to experience the game. This showed greatly in the way he handled himself with calls in the field and especially defending himself in arguements with coaches. Knowledge won. Why else do you hear about media relying on veteran athletes in big situations instead of younger athletes? Knowledge. Why do big companies love students that had previously had an internship? Simple,  they got to experience and learn about the job instead of just learning about the job. Knowledge is crucial. However, don't get the impression that I'm saying knowledge is more important than information, because that is impossible to me. They are so much alike in a lot of ways and depend on eachother in a lot of ways. With that being said, I find them oddly different as well. Either way, know the difference.


(thefilter.blogs.com) - Although wisdom is involved, we'll disregard that part for now. However, it simply shows the cave man stuck on the world without a clue what to do. It then turns to a new window showing the man applying his information he has learned in the world and thats considered knowledge.