Wise Old Owl

When thinking about wisdom what comes to mind? College? Probably not. I can see how you have to have wisdom in choices at college, but do you think of opportunities to development wisdom in tandem to college? Why is this? College is one of the biggest growing times in a person's life. Personally I would like to become a little wiser during this time.

I believe the reason is that many colleges today do not focus on the individual development of a student; rather, they focus on the material outcome of classes, such as grades and retention rates. To them, the person is not important. The outcome and statistics are the things that matter. Because of this, most college atmospheres are not conducive to developing wisdom.

So cool, now we know that wisdom is not always a hot topic at colleges, but what does that mean for my college? Like I said above, I would like to finish college at least a little wiser than when I entered. I actually believe that the Honors program at JBU does a good job at creating opportunities to develop wisdom. They provide their students with different ideas. The students job is to then decide what is right and what they will believe. They ask more than just head knowledge in the classes; instead, most classes call for a change in action. Overall, I believe that the JBU Honors Program does a veery good job of incorporating wisdom into their classes.