The Lesson By Ionesco Analysis

During my experience as a college student, I realize that most students, including myself, have the same question. “What do I want to major in?” It is answered with the hackneyed cliché that gets more irritating the more it is said, which is “study your passion”. Some students are unable to study what truly interest them in fear that they are unable to make a decent wage and the constant nagging of parents to follow a certain route. Even if they are allowed total freedom to choose a major, classes that generally interest them are more complex in theory than in practice. Ionesco 's The Lesson is a play that metaphorically shows the development of students ' education throughout their college experience. The reader can see how the pupil goes …show more content…
Some college students enter the campus scene like the pupil with a “great thirst for knowledge” with an ultimate wealth of classes through which they can quench their thirst. But once they realize that their thirst can be satisfied with a variety of different drinks that are categorize into liberal arts, science, engineering, or business, their purpose is no longer to satisfy their thirst, but rather satisfy it with their degree. Since students in public school, like my ghetto school, are conditioned to learn many subjects from elementary to high school, they soon realize that the commitment to one major is too much to handle. I learn about math since I was able to count and grew quite fond of it, but soon I will be done with all my math classes and I am not ready for that goodbye. Nerdy right? Most students are used to being mouth-fed what subjects to take and what careers they should go into that once they are allowed any freedom they became confused and hysterical. I know I am. Why can they just give me an assign schedule like in high school? Similar to how people might choose their liquor, the selection of major also represent the personality of the student and the future outcome once this knowledge is consumed. Someone might choose a hard major like engineering because, like Rum it is respected for being hard and will not leave you with the hangover of not being able to pay back those student loans. They forgot that they should not worry about what drink to choose, but rather that they are satisfied that thirst for knowledge by actually learning something. The main purpose of education is not to make you marketable for a job or a certain program, but rather to educate you. Although it sounds quite redundant that education purpose is to educate, many students