“My idea is that unless one has to qualify oneself for a job the only sensible reason for studying anything is that one has a strong curiousity about it. And if one has, one can’t help studying it. I don’t see any point in attending lectures etc with some general notion of ‘self-improvement’ – unless, as I say, one finds it fun… I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life’s short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily.”
-C. S. Lewis, The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis Volume 3, page 96
February 24th, 2010 |