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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What are schools where students are the most excited about learning for the sake of learning?[/quote]

Are you contrasting that with schools where people are most excited about learning for the sake of preparing themselves for a successful career, or do you mean something else?  I have a business degree and an engineering degree, so I don't have any familiarity with this "learning for the sake of learning" concept.  All of us were just trying to get jobs.[/quote]

Are you familiar with the concept of the life of the mind? Or that the unexamined life is not worth living?

Some people get excited about ideas, about knowledge, about expanding their mental abilities. Knowing more about history, about cultures, about science, about the way the world works. Pondering big questions about life-how did the earth happen, why are we here, how do events from one century relate to another. Discovering how math underpins things you'd never connect it to. Realizing how the body works, seeing the interconnectedness of things. Learning about cells and atoms and the building blocks of nature. Opening up another world by studying a foreign language and realizing there are different ways to conceptualize the same thing. It's amazing and thrilling to learn new things and to reflect on them can be quite fulfilling.

My grandfather went to work right after high school and had a fairly mind-numbing job his entire life. But he read like crazy, all the classics, plus the newspapers. His interior life, broadened and deepened by a life long quest for knowledge and learning, brought him fulfillment and meaning.

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