The Number 1 Truth About Education

According to David Foster Wallace in his commencement speech to Kenyon College (2005), it’s the right to decide. All that time spent in school, and more importantly college, isn’t about amassing knowledge and divining meaning (well that’s a big part of it). It’s also about learning to think. To be aware. To “see the forest for the trees” (yes that means that the universe doesn’t revolve around us, it means looking ahead when you drive on the freeway but looking to the sides and behind you as...