Once I asked students: "why are you here?"
"to get a degree to get a better job" replied one student.
"to transfer to a 4y college" said another student.
"so that I don't have to move out of my parents house," another student.
"I don't know!" said another student.
I have asked that same question many times, to many different students, and I have never heard " I am here because I want to learn!"
What happened to wanting to know things? What happened to curiosity? Remember when we were kids and everything was "why?" But why? why? Parents got tired of answering the "why" questions, or simply ran out of "because" answers. However, once we got older we no longer ask "why." We no longer wonder why things are the way they are.
We forgot somehow that the more information we gain the more power we will have. Now, I am not talking about physical power, I am talking about the power of making wise, rational choices. The power of learning from past mistakes, yours or others. The power to make your own decisions and the power to live through the consequences. But most importantly the power to know who you are and what you can do with all this power.
Where did our curiosity go?
