Home Schooling
There’s a kind of gratification and sense of accomplishment I feel after finishing one chapter in a book. Not the leisure-time book, but school books. I have bravely enrolled in a few classes online, knowing too well it will be a huge challenge managing my time doing homework, reading assignments, maintaining my blogs and fulfilling jewelry orders from my website and Etsy shops. But what drives me to keep learning is the desire to understand so many information that we are being bombarded with - not just the news, but many more claims regarding different aspects of life.
I took a class on Morals and Philosophy and a couple more in foundations of politics. Sure, this might be questionable to some people I know - I even deliberated on what some of my friends would think - because apparently, some philosophers question faith and religion. However, I believe expanding your knowledge and understanding never hurt. And I am sure anybody would tell me not to base my desire to learn on what people think. My faith is my own. I’m taking those classes not to contradict any faith but to understand and be more aware about what really is going on in the world.
Have you ever heard of the Trolley Problem? The trolley problem is a series of thought experiments in ethics and psychology, involving stylized ethical dilemmas of whether to sacrifice one person to save a larger number. We deal with this kind of situation everyday right down to the food we eat. If you read more into it, it’s interesting when we start to understand why we chose the decisions we make everyday.
Here’s a link to another interesting read. (Link via photo)
