Reply #16: Perhaps I will check back here and keep you

[OrwellwasRight]

posted on my progress and provide you a book reivew.

I am intrigued by philosophy, but did not study it much in school. I had a whole class on Hegel (which I hated), and only one reading of Kant (which I loved). Most of it was in the context of Political Theory, not pure philosophy, so there was of course Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau, Plato's Republic, Karl Marx, etc. (I was a poli sci major).

Here's a story related to yours: when I was getting my Teaching Credential (a required one year graduate program in CA), fellow students in my little political-radical social circle kept being shocked when I told them I was an education student. When I asked why, they would say that ed majors usually aren't very smart. Intrigued (and not too happy), I did some investigating. And, for what it's worth, it was true people in graduate ed programs had the lowest average GRE scores of any major listed by ETS.

Funny thing was, my actual GRE score was higher than the average listed for every program on the list including all the smarty pants engineering and science programs.

So much for "common wisdom." You're not poor, and I'm not dumb.

Welcome to DU. :hi: