Article 1: Wallace
One thing I liked about this
article is when Wallace claims that a liberal arts education “teaches you how
to think” rather than just throwing information at you. I can’t really speak
about this in a liberal arts setting but I think that this translates to many
other subjects. For instance in my engineering class we are looking at two dimensional
representations of three dimensional objects. Rather than just showing us how
to solve the problem, they help us figure out how to approach the problem and
visualize the object looking at only one or two of its sides. That way when we
come across another problem, where the object has unique dimensions, our brains
will know how to figure it out.
One thing that I did not like about
this article is when they started to talk about how the mind “is a terrible master”
and that this is why people commit suicides by shooting themselves in the head.
I found this to be very distastefully and frankly, foolish.
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