You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality and not according to imagination.
When I started editing on my home computer I said to myself 'Well I could be at home studying for a class or I could be at home editing a video.'
I went to Ohio University studying arts and history and playing football. But I was only interested in girls my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.
I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
As a kid I'd go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I'd be in the bathroom crying studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.
My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.
In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.
Many seventh graders I know in Illinois as well as around the Nation are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected me to ask them about it.
I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!
I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.