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Question #4: Why should I be learning?

We're here to learn some really big lessons. What's the substance of existence? What's my reason for being? Where did I and the universe come from? Where are we going? How do we get there? As we said, really big lessons...

To a certain extent, the study of mathematics, literature, history, the sciences and the arts, etc., help us learn these lessons. But the classroom called life has plenty of ways to teach us. A church, synagogue, mosque or other religious setting can be an important classroom. But so can a meadow, an ocean, a mountain... So can a living room, a theater, a swingset...

We're not here to acquire a bunch of facts to store in a warehouse called a human brain. We're here to follow the trail that facts can offer toward the highway of Life’s meaning.

What we do with information is at least as important as what information we acquire. Even when we follow the trails successfully and find the highway, we need to get onto it, and keep moving forward, as continual students. We'll know we're arrived when we feel most as if we're just beginning to learn!

The Amplified Bible:
"Moses called all Israel, and said to them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances which I speak in your hearing this day, that you may learn them, and take heed, and do them. The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. The Lord made this covenant not with our fathers, but with us, who are all of us here alive this day. The Lord spoke with you face to face in the mount..."
	Deuteronomy 5:1-4
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy
"Academics of the right sort are requisite. Observation, invention, study, and original thought are expansive and should promote the growth of mortal mind out of itself, out of all that is mortal. It is the tangled barbarisms of learning which we deplore ~ the mere dogma, the speculative theory, the nauseous fiction."
	p.3:3-8