Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Thinking Outloud
"Recently, Anna was becoming nervous about the shape her personal life might take, or have forced upon it. For, side by side with her reluctant realisation that the family was going downhill, began to stir an uneasy understanding that liberty--she hardly knew for what, but just liberty, the general principle--might be an expensive thing."
--Kate O'Brien, The Land of Spices p. 207
So I've been working on this paper about the 1878 Intermediate Education Act and the 1879 University Education Act and I've come to realise just how much I agree with O'Brien's view of education. O'Brien sees it as a means to liberty, a way to achieve transcendence over those things that seek to bind us to an existence that is not our own. I was really drawn to this quote for reasons I can't explain. I don't want anyone to freak out because I know our family is not going downhill. I think this quote has something for me just because, right now, my primary concern is liberty, not in the political sense, but in the existential sense. There is nothing so important as living authentically and being able to encounter life in its utter realness.
--Kate O'Brien, The Land of Spices p. 207
So I've been working on this paper about the 1878 Intermediate Education Act and the 1879 University Education Act and I've come to realise just how much I agree with O'Brien's view of education. O'Brien sees it as a means to liberty, a way to achieve transcendence over those things that seek to bind us to an existence that is not our own. I was really drawn to this quote for reasons I can't explain. I don't want anyone to freak out because I know our family is not going downhill. I think this quote has something for me just because, right now, my primary concern is liberty, not in the political sense, but in the existential sense. There is nothing so important as living authentically and being able to encounter life in its utter realness.
# posted by Matt Reznicek @ 12:44 PM 
