When it comes to Cows versus Humans I choose Minotaurs

For the most part I have agreed with almost everything CS Lewis has said in the excerpts we have read in class up to this point however on his point about vocational training I cannot disagree more. While I do believe that learning is important and that everyone should have some degree of education outside of their normal field we should not limit ourselves entirely to as Lewis would call it leisurely exercises of thought. One example from my own life is a man who went to college for reasons unknown to me who now is one of the only people in the factory in which I work to have a college degree. While he maintains that he is smarter than everyone else who works there he is viewed as one of the most foolish. This is because while he may be moderately versed in history (a subject that the non human cattle who work with him have stumped him on before) he utterly lacks the common sense of the world which has made him a target of ridicule. He may have become a learned man but in the process he sacrificed everything that one needs to operate outside of the leisurely circles in which Lewis’s humans reside. Instead I would yet again propose a happy medium between the two which in the information age is something that is not difficult to achieve. Almost everyone at least in this nation has instant access to nearly infinite amounts of information. While Lewis would maintain that this type of information gathering would be fairly useless, or trivial. I would agree. I believe that educational system should be used primarily as a means to introduce the masses to literature and the great leisurely pursuits but more as a supplement and leave the level of this type of education up to the individual interests of the person while having vocational training not seen as a negative but a positive and Lewis’s style of learning as a supplement to it so as to ensure that we do not end up with a society of well educated people who are useless in the real world nor a society where everyone works and no one thinks. Once again the middle ground is the only rational ground on which to stand.