The whole subject fascinates me.
I was a college student in the mid-sixties.
Here was the “schedule”.
4 courses per semester [4 credits each, met 4 times per week.]
school work [classes or study or research] Sunday
afternoon thru late Friday afternoon. [There was
*no way you could get the papers written, exams
passed without doing this level of work.]
Memorize meant memorize…not have a vague
“understanding.”
Required courses in World Literature, World History,
Philosophy , Theology, science, mathematics,
languages…no matter what the major was.
[And, since I started in chemistry, there were labs
that needed to be done, on top of the papers and
exams!]
Part of the idea, behind this, was to develop the
ability to hold an intelligent discussion, in
any
of those fields, while not majoring in same.
To look at any issue, presented in life, and have
some knowledge to draw on, not limited by the
mind-set of our own time.
[The idea that the “sixties” was solely protest, to me,
is nonsense.]
And yet, I look at what I was required to learn, and
compare that with what was required in 1910, and
I laugh. No knowledge of Greek or Latin required!
And, when I was handed a diploma, [Philosophy major]
the dominant emotion was gratitude…for, as a
result of this education, I now
knew how much I didn’t
know! It was a stunning realization.
Still, looking back, there would have been time to
be involved in campus ministry, I suppose. But
one would have had to have been super “organized”
to do that - and complete the requirements of papers
due, exams to be taken.
*
With all that, I never learned to…spell.
And the* joke*, to me, is - yes, everyone is “entitled
to their opinion”…but one may forget that I am entitled
to assess what that opinion is* based* on [knowledge]
before making a decision as to whether or not to
“accept” this “opinion” as having any validity, in
terms of the reality.]
reen12
PS I’m not certain of this, but I think we were only
allowed 2 or 3 cuts per class per semester!
And, despite the Literature requirements, I am
abysmally ignorant in this area of knowledge.
“Ignorant” in the
accurate sense of the term =
a simple lack of knowledge.*
plus working