Academia

The semester has completed its first full month of classes, and I'm still unhappy about where I'm at in life.  Feelings I deserve a better quality of education and school continually plague my mind.  Another classmate observed the quality of education and the subsequent challenge on my intellect is simply a result of the amount of effort I invest in to the curriculum.  In other words, I get out what I put in.  To some degree I wholeheartedly agree.  However, I greatly disagree in the sense I need to get challenged by material I am unfamiliar with, not stuff I have already learned by almost forty years of personal life experience.  What this translates to is I am attending college to expand and challenge my horizons in life, not by what I already know but with taking existing knowledge and pushing its limits and boundaries.  One of the classes I'm taking is Introduction to Analysis and Interpretation.  This is a class full of circular logic and reason, taking far-fetched ideas and spoon-feeding it to impressionable and gullible eighteen and twenty-year-olds who don't know any better.  At first I decided to sit by rather passively as the teacher and the school indoctrinate these people.  Aristotle once said it is the mark of an educated mind to entertain an idea without accepting it.  Certainly I am not close-minded, but as the class discusses these very ideas, I find myself intellectually offended to discover these liberal and baseless ideas not refuted or challenged in the classroom.  I can ardently talk about the topics at hand, but there is no way I can cast my brain aside at the door in order to believe the subject matter at hand.  Too many people have drunk and are drinking the Kool-Aid of liberalism and/or secular humanism without giving it a second thought or even of knowing better.  Then the thought hit me...why don't I challenge the ideas with the Truth of God's timeless Word.  Could I be the only one in the class or college who might be bold enough to stand in the gap for the minds and souls of the next generation? Why don't I respectfully challenge the status quo, taking to task the very academics who have had free reign in the halls of learning?  May the Light of Christ shine through me so the minds and souls of the future aren't set adrift without any moral or intellectual bearings.  Doing so will safeguard the integrity of a person's soul while challenging my intellect to become a beacon of hope and light in a "kingdom" which has been dominated by the dark realm for so long.  This is what I should do.  Lord God, grant me your Wisdom to show your ways are higher than mine or that of this world's.

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