Learning Without a Goal: The Joy of Learning

In the United States, learning is seen as a means to an end, not as an end of itself. You go to college to get a degree that will net you a good-paying job. You learn new skills on that job to get a promotion that will increase your wages. You learn that side hustle to make more money on the side. Education ties with money. Money, in American society at least, is the final measure of someone’s worth. Education becomes just another commodity to consume and to show off your social status. Much of...