When I entered college in 1962, there were no campus tours by members of the football team or trips to the new student center with pool, sauna, climbing wall and juice bar.
We were invited to a lecture by a professor of classics. How he spoke about Plato made it clear to me that I had a lot to learn and much work to do to figure out what it meant to be educated and to be human. That was the purpose of an education for me, not a career and a comfortable income, which seems to be the thrust of much of college education now.
I often call myself a dinosaur, but really I am a creature of ideas and beliefs that are enduring and deeply human.
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