how is knowledge a tool for a competent communicator?

Answer 1

The more you know the better you can communicate. If you know your target audience, you can relate what your communicating to them by using references they would understand.

"Effective communication will remain a key quality for future Extension educators. Effective communicators are distinguished by their ability to understand and use all kinds of personal and mass communication techniques to facilitate the learning of others.

They'll be equally comfortable leading as well as responding, getting their messages across by, first, perceptively observing and listening to the environment. An appropriate response is then developed and delivered through a suitable medium. This response won't be a canned program or approach, but a carefully tailored message designed to help the receiver learn.

Effective communicators stay abreast of communications developments and adopt technologies and methodologies that will help them improve in their role as Extension educators."

Answer 2

Knowledge is a tool for more things than just communicating.

A typical American seventh grader knows the meaning of 10-15 words today that she didn't know yesterday. She must have acquired most of them as a result of reading, because (a) the majority of English words are used only in print, (b) she already knew well almost all the words she would have encountered in speech, and (c) she learned less than one word by direct instruction.

So to communicate you must learn, knowledge is just learning.
Learning is just a tool for knowledge.
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