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Sep 1, 2006 Making the most of college (first annual)

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Editorial: Making the most of college

The ancient Greek philosophers pondered life’s ultimate questions: Who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going? Why am I here? They are the questions posed to college and university students in this introductory editorial, and Comment editor Gideon Strauss adds a fifth: Who loves me and what and whom do I love? And he implies that life’s ultimate questions are ultimately religious.

Sep 1, 2006 Making the most of college (first annual)

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Making the most of college: learning to love good books

Books or movies? Word or image? Byron Borger doesn’t think it’s a case of ‘either or.’ Instead, Borger insists that readers can approach all of life—tasks and people, classes and socializing, parking oneself in a study carrel and taking a road trip, engaging in a class discussion and a conversation on a first date, or learning how to use a library catalogue and how to cook a first meal—by reveling in the joy and discipline of reading.

Sep 1, 2006 Making the most of college (first annual)

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Making the most of college: philosophy as schooled memory

Western culture runs itself by the notion that something is only good if it can “do” something—that people are to be valued on the basis of what they can do or produce. Calvin Seerveld attacks the understanding of philosophy as a “tool” with an “instrumental” value. He suggests, instead, that philosophy precedes and grounds human—including students’—thinking and talking and writing. Seerveld describes neocalvinist philosophy in these terms.

Sep 1, 2006 Making the most of college (first annual)

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Making the most of college: looking at paintings

Art is more than a weather forecast or a financial statement, which experts can interpret for us. A student of art is required to personally engage art, and Chris Cuthill suggests three interdependent methods: from one’s own worldview, from dipping into the communal experience of a work through others’ interpretations, and through the surface plays of colour and texture.

Sep 1, 2006 Making the most of college (first annual)

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Making the most of college: making friends for life (‘I want to be tangled up . . . in the thorns of love’)

col·lege (‘kä-lij) n. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin collegium, association. The students, faculty, and administration of such a school or institution. A society of scholars for study or instruction. A body of persons having a common purpose or shared duties. To know and be known, to consider one’s life in the community that is a college.