<p>a person is NOT educated who has not learned about the 2nd law of thermodynamics.</p>
<p>The answer is probably located somewhere starting on this page (but I have some trouble figuring this out)...</p>
<p>Lawrence</a> University:Planning an Academic Program</p>
<p>this question was sent to LU, too.</p>
<p>You have to take a lab science, geo, bio, physics or chem. I chose geo and didn't learn about entropy but it's not something wikipedia can't fix.</p>
<p>thanks, kassos, for the clarification on the grad requirements. Recalling my college days, even though I was a strict humanities person, the uni I was at required some gen ed natural sciences, apparently more than LU, since I took geo, chem, and physics (I would not have done so if I did not have to). I ended up greatly liking these courses. This was the basis of my saying this bit of pith.++</p>
<p>yes, learn about it (entropy), kassos. here is a start.
Entropy</a> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
ENTROPY</a> AND THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS
welcome</a> to entropysite.com
Amazon.com:</a> Entropy Demystified: The Second Law Reduced to Plain Common Sense: Arieh Ben-Naim: Books</p>
<p>I read in some college guide book that, At the end of the day college is simply a professor and a student on two ends of a log. The extension of this minimalist view of college (after all the rankings, the resources, and the gaudy settings and perceptions are taken into account), is that the student continues to learn and grow - to be 'led out'.+</p>
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The Latin word educare means to "lead out" from ignorance; hence the educated person has been led to think critically
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from...
erudition:</a> Definition, Synonyms and Much More from Answers.com</p>
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When on the subject of college in a conversation recently with a British friend (who happened to be an Oxford alum), I had said the bit about entropy and he told me that there was some some popular British guy in the 1950s who said the same words as I - he thought I was quoting this guy. I never heard of this before.</p>