Pirates? Really...

This week in Truth in Society Russ made his long awaited come back! And failed to bring us home any presents... whatever I'm over it. We started an inquiry in piracy. At first I thought "Johnny Depp!" After that I thought wow I really don;t know anything about real life pirates. I was a little embarrassed. I am learning form Aquinas that the things I thought I knew and the things I know are two completely different things. I find myself more inquisitive and less likely to just accept the answers I get. I like it. I am learning by asking questions in an effective way.

We read an article called "Bootylicious" and after we were finished discussing any questions we had about it and we were assigned questions to answer Thom explained something that bothered me, but in a way that helped me understand. He said that the first time you read something that you just take it all in, but then you look at it and say why was this information picked out for me to find? And at first I felt a little betrayed. If I was being honest when I read an article from The New Yorker I trust it to be the truth thats all there is to it. I never thought about questioning someones motives to write what they wrote. Now that I am I think it's a great skill but at the same time I am feeling very strange looking at everything with such a skeptical view, makes me feel all sketched out.

I am now beginning to understand what the profs were saying in the beginning of the course that learning something new isn't fun it's painful and it should be because learning something new means you have to let go of something else you thought you knew. I am just experiencing this now. I hope that I am not the only one just figuring this out.