English 1B
October 20,] 2013
Analysis Essay, Draft 2

Schools and Its Responsibility With Students

In “Kenyon Commencement Speech,”David Wallace shows the purpose of a liberal-arts Education, helping] students to make better decisions. As Wallace observes, “The really significant education that we’re supposed to get in a place like this college isn’t really about the capacity to think, but rather about the choice of what to think about.”(2012 pg199). He means that colleges teach students how to think about life and how to make the right choices. Students do not like when people try to tell them how to think. He said that they should not be insulted. Colleges’ teachers know that students have the ability to think. They just want students to make conscious choices on their own free will. Wallace contends that colleges teach students how to overcome the sin of selfishness. Wallace goes and says that educations has to be more than just professors teaching classes, education is about live and knowledge. He says that “Education isn’t about filling you up with knowledge; it is about teaching you how to think” (pg 199). In other words, he is trying to inform students that in order to be considered fully educated and we have to make adjustment and as individual one must learn how to teach our self about life and how to control how and what we think.
In the Kenyon Commencement speech Wallace imply that we are focusing in the wrong thing by saying “And the so-called real world will not discourage you from operating on your default, because the so-called real world of men and money and power hums merrily along in a pool of fear and anger and frustration and craving and worship of self “(pg208). He is trying to explain that we can see outside of a box, a box that our own culture had imposed on us. Our culture had made us believe that we need material possessions in