Monday, June 28, 2010
Saturday, June 5, 2010
This is a clever way to get an education when you are not in formal schooling!
I was listening to a friend of mine talk about her love for books. She always is reading a good book and studying the scriptures. She told me she thinks it's really important to read a lot and be educated so that when the Spirit speaks it has the words she could recall.
"The other good thing about not staying in college was that I was left with no other option but ot educate myself. So, instead of regurgitating the ideas of tweedy intellectuals dressed up as my own, I simply started to read and take in as much information as I possibly could. I wasn't ecpecting to find answers--I was just hoping to discover more questions and better ways to ask them.
"As I searched to understand things such as the meaning f the universe and my place in it, I learned something profound: There is no one person who has all the right answers. Life's most challenging and interesting questions can only truly be answered by taking in all the information, from all different points of view. If I read something and it made sense tome, I immediately went out to find a book by someone who thought the first guy was a nut job. It was only then, after reading and studying both sides f the issue, that I felt free to make up my own mind--and even then, my ideas usually fell somewhere in the middle.
"Isn't that what learning and education should really be about? Discourse. Examination. Looking at something from all sides, not just one."
Glenn Beck, An Inconvenient Book
(I just want to say that my blogger didn't want pictures right now. Tempermental.)
"The other good thing about not staying in college was that I was left with no other option but ot educate myself. So, instead of regurgitating the ideas of tweedy intellectuals dressed up as my own, I simply started to read and take in as much information as I possibly could. I wasn't ecpecting to find answers--I was just hoping to discover more questions and better ways to ask them.
"As I searched to understand things such as the meaning f the universe and my place in it, I learned something profound: There is no one person who has all the right answers. Life's most challenging and interesting questions can only truly be answered by taking in all the information, from all different points of view. If I read something and it made sense tome, I immediately went out to find a book by someone who thought the first guy was a nut job. It was only then, after reading and studying both sides f the issue, that I felt free to make up my own mind--and even then, my ideas usually fell somewhere in the middle.
"Isn't that what learning and education should really be about? Discourse. Examination. Looking at something from all sides, not just one."
Glenn Beck, An Inconvenient Book
(I just want to say that my blogger didn't want pictures right now. Tempermental.)
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