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What is your understanding of the word “power”? Does it mean that a rich person can fulfill his own pursuits by doing anything he would like to do? Or does it mean that an official with great authority can decide to others lives? Obviously, the answer is “no”. So what is the true power? Frankly, power mainly lies in two ways: strength and spirit. When it come to the spirit power, there is no doubt that “knowledge is the true power”, which is the most famous proverb invented by Francis Bacon, the outstanding essayist in 17th British. I claim that most of us are influenced by Bacons thought deeply, today I will interpret the proverb “knowledge is power” from the following aspects: the importance of knowledge, the utility of knowledge, the malpractice of the knowledge. As is known to all of us, the whole world is surrounded by all kinds of knowledge, and we use those knowledge to invent many necessaries, for instance, electronic light, telephone, computer and other electronic equipment. All of them are on the basis of knowledge. Suppose there is no knowledge at all in the world, can you imagine what will our world be like? In fact, I dare not imagine worlds future, but it must be a disaster if the assumption comes into effect. But how do we get knowledge? It has two ways: reading and practice.In the essay Of Studies, it says that Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability, and histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep, moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. And books are used to inherit knowledge, accumulate culture and make a connection between the old and new knowledge. Just as Bacon said, “books are the ship of the thought sailing in the age, and it coaxes the precious goods from generation to generation”. Its so obvious that reading plays an important role in our daily life. Meanwhile, our knowledge and our mind become fertile through reading in some ways. This lets me accidentally think of our prime minister wens first interaction with internet users. In the end he said, “not only did reading give us power, but also it gave us a sense of security and happiness. I wished to see everyone holding a book inside subway one day”. As I first saw these sentences, I was shocked and moved. As a rule, we say that reading offers us knowledge and power, but now it can furnish security and happiness with us. How important it is! Based on these, reading contributes to the accumulation of knowledge. Besides, the other method to get knowledge is to practice. In fact, all theories learned from books are applied to practice. And we can know shortcomings through practice. By this way can we improve and enrich us to a higher level. As the proverb” Apart from knowledge and learning, there is no any other strength that can survive in peoples thinking, imagination, ideas and beliefs and establish rule and authority.” Above all, knowledge is crucial, and we should try our best to get it.Knowledge is power, which is also the first driving force to change the fate of the individual completely. As Napoleon once said, “the real conquer is the conquest of the ignorance”. After conquering ignorance and acquiring knowledge, Napoleon made France revitalized, with his own success interpreting what he called. Yes, conquering ignorance is to acquire knowledge, and we can dominate our fate with knowledge. Have you ever heard the proverb” lagging behind will be beaten” before? Yeah, it makes me think of our old China. When the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded China, we just compromised and were forced to sign a series of unequal treaties, which made Chinese be in deep waters. As Turgenev said, “knowledge more than anything else can give people freedom”. At all times, knowledge is the brightest pearl standing in the world sturdily. With the age ship tumbling into the 21st century, people shout loudly: the explosion age of knowledge is coming. To be honest, in the economy era, anyone who has knowledge and talent can seize his fate by the throat. On the contrary, anyone who doesnt own knowledge will be replaced by others. In a word, knowledge can change peoples destiny.There is one proverb” water can make ship flow and it also can make it overturn”. Just as one coin has two sides, knowledge also has pros and cons. In fact knowledge does great harm to our daily life and even threatens our lives in some ways when we enjoy our lives accompanied by knowledge. Especially nowadays, more and more people violate the law by high-tech. As a matter of fact, high-tech should have been used in a right way to make great contributions to people rather than being used to crime. So we should use it correctly and richly.Knowledge is power, and it shows infinite power in our daily life. As college students, we should try our best to s