Education
Current Audio Book: Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen
I pondering today the nature of education and learning. I know many consider education to be a means to an end: to learn the skills and knowledge in order to get a better job, but the more and more I think about it, the more I realize thats not how I see things. I love learning for its own sake, the insatiable desire to learn more, see more, understand more.
I know I gets some weird looks for spending my days of reading the densest books I can get my hands on, without the motivator of having a class to learn for. Its not like I’m an intellectual snob, I just enjoy the challenge of plowing through them and understanding them.
It keeps me going when I’m a human machine at work.
It is saddening though, when I see people throwing away their chances at learning. I will admit to skipping the occasional class, but usually when I was actually sick or in too much pain to get to class. It doesn’t make sense to me though, to skip classes, especially if you are paying so much for them at the university level. Maybe someone can explain to me how skipping classes works out in the long run.
Right now I would kill to be able to go for classes, I miss the academic lifestyle so badly it hurts. I envy them so much. But soon enough I will be applying to grad school, and hopefully joining the ranks of academia once again.
Its just been a frustrating day, can you tell?
Take care, dear readers.
The English Literature Addict
