Exploring the Value of Education: A Discussion on College, Learning, and Ideals

I think education is really awesome. I think it’s really valuable. I think education’s. The only way that someone like you is able to write a book is cause someone taught you how to read and write. And education on all levels is great. So that’s not my. That one. I don’t think that’s your issue with college. Right. Do you know where I went to college? Um, I don’t think that’s important right now. Let me just. I didn’t, I’m just talking. I said read and write. Like, who taught you to read? I agree. I, I, I didn’t say great schools is a scam. Can we just keep going? All right, I said college is a scam, not great schools. Right. Keep going. So we’re talking about the financial part, right? So do you think that college should be free then? So that everybody can get like, a free education? No. Why not? By the way, what’s happening in college is not an education. Well, okay, um, I’m just. You don’t think that college should be free because it’s not an education. If it was a. No, wait, wait, wait. If it was for education, in your eyes, would you think that should be free or. What do you mean by free? You mean paid by somebody else? Oh, sure. Our taxpayer dollars would go. Okay, so. So, so, yeah. So. So paid by somebody else, sure, sure. No, I don’t believe that your schooling should Be paid by somebody else. I want my taxes to go to schooling for everybody. I think education is great. I don’t want my taxes to go to fund wars. I don’t want my taxes to go to the military or the police budget. But I don’t get. You don’t want any military. I don’t think that it should go to fund the military like that. I want my taxes. You don’t want any police force. Um, I want my taxes to go towards education because I think education is valuable. Do you think that education should be, well, what is paid for? So define education. I’m curious. Sure. It’s just the, uh. I would probably say that education right now is the ability to go out and. And learn different mindsets, to be introduced to different subjects, to have the opportunities to talk about these things with a lot of different kinds of people. I think that’s the really cool part about college. Someone like, you can come here and have different opinions. My history teacher just talked about how he’s like, so you look at. He does this whole, like, I’m a conservative, old school conservative act, and then one of my other teachers, she’s like, I’m a bleeding hippie. You know, there’s, like, a lot of opportunities to just be introduced to subjects you didn’t even know were a thing. Like, I didn’t know that semiotics was a thing until my last philosophy class. And I think That’s really interesting. So just the idea that you get to go out to this place and you get to get taught about a bunch of different ideas, do you. Are you against that being available for everyone? Oh, I have a completely different view of what education is. So education in Latin means to lead forth. Okay, your idea of education is the new age, which is we’re gonna have like a buffet line of post modern ideas and all ideas are treated the same. I don’t believe that at all. College means partnership in Greek. And going back to education, you must leave forth towards something. And I think college should lead you towards the good, the true and the beautiful. Okay? It should lead you towards things. You think it should lead towards beautiful things? Like. Of course, like beautiful things. Like you think that we should go out after college and be like, where’s the prettiest thing? That’s. If your idea of beauty is just the aesthetic, then you’re not having a great college experience. What’s your idea of beauty? My bad. That. My bad. Which is perfected in being. Okay, so you really like the. The Greek ideas and like the Roman ideas of like the. The idea of perfection and perfect harmony? Cause that’s like a very Greek and Roman way. Well, it’s western, which is the civilization we currently live in. Okay, but let me finish. Of course you’re right. But Stan. From Greek and Roman mythology. Of course, you’re right. So the good, the true, and the beautiful are the three things that every college student should grapple with.