We asked our Twitter followers to tweet us their funniest examples of student wisdom, philosophy and ignorance.
The earliest exponents of general education — John Erskine, Jacques Barzun, Lionel Trilling, Mortimer Adler — believed in teaching students the wisdom of the ages to prepare them to confront the pressing issues of the day, and their critics considered the enterprise at once dilettantish and crudely instrumentalist.
Business was deemed too distasteful a subject to impose on students seeking wisdom and enlightenment.
So maybe one possibility is that The School of Life is a space where being a dedicated student of wisdom, clarity, and analytical thinking won't be considered useless and will lead students to professions out of an increasingly clear sense of aspiration instead of just doing what you're told.
"Thus has our stream of consciousness developed a waterfall," Dr. Henriksson said, smiling as he savored the student's wisdom.
And that's the joy of being a teacher: sometimes, your students have more wisdom than you do.
Again, there was a superficial Hellenization in the frequent adoption of Greek names, even by the rabbis; and there is evidence (Talmud, Soṭa [a tractate in the Mishna]) of a school at the beginning of the 2nd century ce that had 500 students of "Greek wisdom".
Although I may sit at the front of the room, ten minutes into the hour, it is not just my wisdom students copy down, but some new insight we discover together that none of us would have thought of on our own.
For example, you could write as though you're a teacher and your readers are your students, spouting inspiring wisdom that keeps them coming back.
Dr. Wisdom, student or golfer, still holds the reins and he drives a covered wagon.
