Regarding “the old pedagogical cliché that a liberal arts education teaches you how to think”:
“Twenty years after my own graduation, I have come gradually to understand that [this] cliché … is actually shorthand for a much deeper, more serious idea: learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.” David Foster Wallace, 2005 commencement speech at Kenyon College
Dreyfus H, Kelly SD. All things shining. Reading Western classics to find meaning in a secular age. Free Press, NY, 2011.
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