Twenty years
after my own graduation, I have come gradually to understand that the liberal
arts cliché about teaching you how to think 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. Think of the old cliché about
‘the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.’
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