This week we finished our book Siddhartha and compared our notes. Two key ideas I learned from the text itself is that we cannot be taught wisdom and it's not about where you come from, it's about what you do with your life. Throughout my life my mother would always ask me what I learned at school today. I'd reply with "nothing" almost every day. There are a lot of things that I've learned from school but I can tell you wisdom and real life experiences aren't any of them. I tend to learn more from myself through trial and error. I think this is how I've intellectually grown so much in this class. Most of the time, Andy serves as a guide rather than a standardized SAT proctor. I believe this way of education is much more efficient than just absorbing information.
As mentioned before, I learned from Siddhartha that it doesn't matter where you come from, it matters what you do with your life. This idea is very relevant to our current situation as a nation because people often use the excuse of privilege. People say "well I'm not a privileged white male so I can't be the best I could be". In most cases I believe that those people are just using a social justices's terminology as a crutch. However, in some extreme cases I would agree with them.
As mentioned before, I learned from Siddhartha that it doesn't matter where you come from, it matters what you do with your life. This idea is very relevant to our current situation as a nation because people often use the excuse of privilege. People say "well I'm not a privileged white male so I can't be the best I could be". In most cases I believe that those people are just using a social justices's terminology as a crutch. However, in some extreme cases I would agree with them.