Why Do I Have Have to Learn This Stuff?
"One purpose of a liberal arts education is to make your
head a more interesting place to live inside of for the rest of your life."
--Mary Patterson McPherson, President, Bryn Mawr College
"It is not so very important for a person to learn facts,
for that he doesn't really need a college education, for he can learn them
from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is
not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think -
something that cannot be learned from books." --Albert Einstein
"One day a chemistry professor was discussing a particularly
complicated concept. A pre-med student rudely interrupted to ask
'Why do we have to learn this stuff?' 'To save lives,' the professor
responded quickly and continued the lecture. A few minutes later
the same student spoke up again. 'So how does organic chemistry save
lives?' he persisted. 'It keeps idiots out of medical school.'
replied the professor." --Modified from Frank Gorga, Bridgewater
State College