The Lack of Learning
Though this blog is merely something I created so that I would be capable of reading and commenting my teacher's blogs, I still feel as if what I write here is reaching someone's ears.
As Alice Cooper once mused, "School's out for the Summer." Though, unlike Mr. Cooper, I'm not terribly thrilled about this. True, Summer is a time for rest, for relaxation, for rejuvenation, but I'm not tired and I need no rejuvenation. As I sit here, desperately trying to figure out what beneficial activity I should put my mind to, I can't help but lament that there are two and a half months ahead of me in which I don't have the option of classical education.
I suppose I'm the oddball. Unlike most, I enjoy few things more than our Humanities lectures. True, having to retain every bit of that information in order to regurgitate it onto a test can be stressful, but nevertheless, Humanities excites me. To me, sitting smugly on the back row, listening to Dr. Grant baptise me in knowledge is like going to the movies. Hearing about the treacherous Hapsburgs and the daring soldiers of the Reformation keeps me on the edge of my seat.
No, I won't sit patiently by and watch my Summer fly past. I've got big plans to tear through several books (mostly Chesterton, of course) and get caught up in my imagination. I'll be Chesterton, I'll change this place.
Some day.
-L. Mckinley Davis
As Alice Cooper once mused, "School's out for the Summer." Though, unlike Mr. Cooper, I'm not terribly thrilled about this. True, Summer is a time for rest, for relaxation, for rejuvenation, but I'm not tired and I need no rejuvenation. As I sit here, desperately trying to figure out what beneficial activity I should put my mind to, I can't help but lament that there are two and a half months ahead of me in which I don't have the option of classical education.
I suppose I'm the oddball. Unlike most, I enjoy few things more than our Humanities lectures. True, having to retain every bit of that information in order to regurgitate it onto a test can be stressful, but nevertheless, Humanities excites me. To me, sitting smugly on the back row, listening to Dr. Grant baptise me in knowledge is like going to the movies. Hearing about the treacherous Hapsburgs and the daring soldiers of the Reformation keeps me on the edge of my seat.
No, I won't sit patiently by and watch my Summer fly past. I've got big plans to tear through several books (mostly Chesterton, of course) and get caught up in my imagination. I'll be Chesterton, I'll change this place.
Some day.
-L. Mckinley Davis
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