A word that holds many meanings, for each person a different meaning. For not everyone is knowledge the grades you get written in your report card. If it is for you, then, you truly do not know the meaning of the word. Knowledge is not the report card, not the book you read in first grade,.. It's something you gain in your life. Your actions that have consequenses. And those consequences have consequences. Meaning you either use the lemons life gave you to make lemonade or use them to make apple juice. If you think outside of the box and leave the inside of the box empty. 

For example, a person that had a traumatic experience.. They have knowledge. Why, you ask? They had the action that caused a consequence. They choose to learn from it and take all the things they learned into their life, making every new action filled with previous knowledge they had gained. They used life, the message life gave them to pursue their dreams, to grow further on and become a better person. They took every little piece life gave them, every little lemon and made apple juice. They thought inside and outside of the box leaving nothing empty. They used their mistakes and their good deeds to build a better life, fill their brain out with more things than just the grades in their report card and the book they read in first grade. Sure, books teach you a ton. Books are the knowledge we are left with after a person dies. The knowledge they had gained in life after every experience they had, rather than every book they chose to copy from other people. Their own experiences. A smart person is not the person who finished with straight A's, not the person who read a thousand books and never truly understood their meaning. A smart person is a person who chooses to be guided by life and it's gifts, being bad or good, being happy or sad. 

"A person without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots"

Don't focus on your grades before your knowledge. Don't think having two F's in your report card means you're less worthy than the person who has none. Don't let it define your worth. Learn from your good deeds and mistakes, learn how to take the knowledge you learned from your actions and their consequences into life. Beautiful, amazing life. What do you think? Do you think you have knowledge? Or do you let other people and grades define your worth?