Rough night of about 3.5 hours of sleep, with about 6-8 hours of reading on the table today. Its time to start living like a Graduate student...cause Im not far away! My areas of desired research are becoming more and more defined daily, and are not surprising due to the expression of my own defined passions and efforts to understand humanity beyond the classroom. Four Years and Many More to Go... Reflecting on all of the efforts, hours, and brain synapses that have made up this journey is tiring and exciting simultaneously. The fact of the matter is anyone with a working prefrontal cortex can surmise that self-study, while indicative of using the performance capabilities of the brain, cannot touch the distance of NYC to LA in resonance with the determination, focus, discipline, and academic achievement of the most basic college degree. It is simply comparing grapes with pineapples, for my foodies in the audience. An objective opinion cannot be self-taught, it must be learned and formally introduced, explained and implemented into daily instruction and concordance. The only way to learn how to be right is to have someone else prove with diction, or notation why you are wrong...and then the learning can begin, as the saying goes, {when the student is ready...} The practice of having ones own ideas challenged is at times excruciating, but is key in defining the academic character and integrity that proposes the realities of our world to the general public and academic scholars, all who seek to be proven wrong in the idealism of science and endeavor for humanity. There is definitely a fallacy and stigma to this learning process, but its quickly dissuaded in the intelligent academic circle of the deciders. Definitely, school teaches one to be a critical thinker, evaluate previous arguments, compose post-arguments, and elaborate and articulate intelligence for further growth. To one who would bring about the levels of previous scholars in the past with low and no education who were extremely intelligent, I would dismantle that argument by stating that at one point academic acceptance and intervention was essential in order for their points to be known today, thereby creating a false premise in argument of being isolated from education. Additionally, outliers exist in all studies and possibilities of observation and research, therefore pointing out that the extraordinary exists is axiomatic.
Posted on: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 19:31:45 +0000
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