Retrospection: a person is not educated who has not learned....

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<p>I came across this bit on what a (Liberal) education means from the Kenyon 2005 commencement address by David Foster Wallace.</p>

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That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.

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<p>Be sure to read the rest. It is good.</p>

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It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time…

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<p>I never heard of him til his tragic passing. he wrote some great refreshing honest stuff. I look forward to reading more of him.</p>