Subscribe to the Network“GE is a waste of time”
Talking with some students today gave me a headache (how’s that for honesty?). I am typically very patient and understanding with my students – especially when they don’t get something I’m saying. I understand their thought processes for the most part, I get their stage of life…but for some reason today, I just got frustrated.
I have heard it over and over again from college-age people, “I don’t get the point of all my GE classes, it’s a waste of my time!” Many students fall into this mentality, and it’s very concerning.
I was trying to get these students to see a few things…but I don’t think they got any of it. I wanted them to see their education as preparation for missionary work. I want them to grasp the fact that the more they know, the more impact they might have in their future workplace. I want my students to view education as crucial to living out their faith, NOT as hoops they have to jump through to get a piece of paper (mostly to appease parents).
The part that frustrated me, which doesn’t normally, was they only wanted to focus on what they wanted to focus on…everything else was a waste of time. That egocentric/selfish outlook really got to me today.
They were failing to see the bigger picture. They were not seeing vocation (or life for that matter) through God’s desires, they were only seeing it from there’s.
I think the Bible calls that idolatry.
