Section A Questions
Discuss and answer the following questions.
1. You may have imagined what college life would be like before you became a college student. Has it turned out to be what you expected? Provide examples in support of your answers.
2. Whenever you think about college life, what are some of the things that come to mind? Following the examples given, make a list of such things in the following table. Share your answers with your group members and comment on each of the items you have listed as you go along.
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3. How do you like your college life so far? Give examples.
4. What do you think is the most important thing to achieve at college? Explain.
Section B Quotes
Study the following quotes about education and see if you accept the ideas expressed in the quotes.
1. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. — W. B.Yeats
3. You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. —Galileo
The Interpretation of Quotes
1. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Interpretation:
We don't go to school or college to learn, but to seek the way to learn.
2. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. — W. B.Yeats
Interpretation:
Instead of stuffing students with knowledge, real education aims at bringing out what is inside students and cultivating their potential.
3. You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. —Galileo
Interpretation:
Teaching doesn't really help anyone, but it helps a person find out what he/she is good at.
