Friday, January 18, 2008
College
Augustine says, "...I got no joy from my learning, but sought only to please men by it..." (102). I think this realization of Augustine's can apply to many college students. Attending college is not required necessarily by law, but it pleases parents and a college degree appears honorable. Honor also comes with the college one attends. For example, Harvard University would be much more prestigious than a community college or even the University of Richmond. I cannot name one college student that genuinely enjoys writing term papers, lab reports and attending 8:15 classes. Although college is not necessarily compulsory, it is definitely not something one would attend if he did not have to. One attends college because it pleases others.
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I have been thinking about the discussion we had before break about the reflection paper, and how we had to define what we meant by "learning." I'm not sure people always mean the same thing by that term. Do you think some kinds of learning you do for yourself, and some for others? Some for the pleasure of the present, some for the future?
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