It begins with our mother; it is continued by our teachers, and our college professors. Our intellectual food is prepared, cut into bit size portions, and spooned into our mouth. All we have had to do is to masticate and to swallow.
When our schools days are over we must learn to prepare our own intellectual food or we end our existence as an intellectual being striving to be all we can be. We become easy marks for spinners (ideologues) to fill the vacuum with their particular views.
Well Coberst, I wish the world was so simple. I would go farther and discribing, in our infancy to when you say we must prepare our own food, implies that we had proper sustanace in the first place. We are easy marks in the beginning and the end because of the lack of intellectual food in the first place. If we truly learned anything in the first place, I dont feel how we could fall prey to the ‘ideologues’. But we do none the less.
It all in how you recieve the “intellectual morsels” in the first place, some people take in remember and the spew forth on appropriate occasions and then there are others who take in, think, come to their own ideas and move forward after changed and ready to take on new ideas and infomation. The infomation is always out there ready to be spoon fed to us at any age it doesnt stop after schooling.
The moral of this story is that when our school days are over it is important for us to comprehend that we have not yet learned how to learn and it is imporatnt that we start that learning process.