The study of an academic discipline alters the way we perceive the world. After studying the discipline, we see the same world as before, but with different eyes.- GRE Issue 87

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The study of an academic discipline alters the way we perceive the world. After studying the discipline, we see the same world as before, but with different eyes.- GRE Issue 87

I strongly agree that by studying any particular academic discipline we alter the way we perceive the world. As intellectual neophytes we tend to polarize what we see as either right or wrong, or as either good or bad. We also tend to interpret what we see by way of our emotions. Once educated, we gain the capacity to see a broader spectrum of opinion and perspective, and to see our own culture and even ourselves as a tapestry-like product of history.

Through the earnest pursuit of knowledge--particularly in history and literature--we reveal to ourselves the flaws and foibles of other hu...

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