Learning!

This might be a very random little post, but it is just a little compilation of my thoughts today.

I love school. I think that's a new thing that I have developed in the last semester. I mean, yes, I'd always say that I loved learning, but did I really?

My Human Development Professor said something insightful the other day. He said that in our society we always want the most for our money except for in our education. We are always trying to figure out how little we can do and still get good grades. Why are we like that? Are we just lazy? He told us that once we looked at education as expanding our minds and learning new things, instead of seeing it as just studying for tests and for grades, the grades would come naturally.

Also, my friend Cheyenne talked to me a few weeks about this topic. She had another insightful thing to say. She told me that she had a testimony of BYU. Initially, I thought this was an odd statement, but what she continued to say blew my mind. She reminded me that people from ALL across the world pay tithing which is used so we can go to school here. Many people will faithfully pay tithing, knowing that they will never have the opportunity to go to school. I believe that if some of these people had the opportunities to learn that I have, they'd never skip class or daydream. They wouldn't complain about learning like I sometimes do.

So I have new perspective. Gaining an education is not a burden and it shouldn't be something that ever stops, even when we're done with our formal education. It shouldn't be something I take for granted, complaining and seeing it as a burden. I have really grown to love learning and hope to continue for the rest of my life!