You are free to choose…

but you are not free from the consequences of your choice.

Welcome to part three of this ongoing series and writing experiment loosely inspired by Plato’s “dialogues.” By exploring some topics using discussion format I hope to make the topics a little less dry and to help me work on my narrative prose.

If you’re just jumping in now, I recommend you head back to part one. If you’ve been following along since the beginning, welcome back! I hope you’ll take the time to provide me with some feedback in the comments. Of course, if you’re still here after reading the first two installments, you’re either enjoying it or you view it as you would a train wreck and just can’t look away. I really hope it’s the former.

In the first installment we - looked at abortion and straw man arguments. In part two we began an examination of why laws exist. Today we’ll continue that conversation, but not before “our hero” provides us with a brief mental editorial on the state of college education today.

I hope you enjoy it!

"The capacity to learn is a gift, the ability to learn is a skill, the willingness to learn is a choice."

-- Albert Einstein.

Declan made one last note in the margins of the exam book, closed it, and sighed. He had only completed 10 exams from the stack of 100 he needed to correct and he was already becoming discouraged.

Declan scribbled one last note in the exam margin, shut the booklet, and sighed. Ten essays down, ninety to go, and he was becoming discouraged.

“Surely the better students are in here somewhere,” he thought.

He leaned his chair back and gazed out his window at the college campus and the vast forests of upstate New York just beyond the school buildings.

“What are they teaching these kids in high school,” he wondered.