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Ep. 16 - Harry Lewis and Stephen Blackwood: What's an Education For?

The Ralston College Podcast

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Why People in College Should Read Novels

I think it's beautiful the way you put that, harry, they to take a chance on. The thingthat we are called as human beings to take a risk on is ourselves. There's no one else in the world who can live the life that you have in you. It takes a certain courage to exercise your liberty. You need some raw material to work with. If you don't really know very much except what you were in your high school text books, you may not find much to work with if you try to look inside yourself. This is why people in college should read novels. I'm going to be a biochemist and i got to learn all these organic molecular

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