Dear Logan,
From the moment a guy leaves college, he immediately begins to experience an untensing of the brain muscles. The lack of a really pointed challenge to those fibers makes this kind of atrophy almost certain. Of course, there are things one can do to forestall this process. But without some kind of non-self-schooling in place, you will continually lower the bar for yourself. So you might study anatomy, for example, on your own. The standards and pace you set for yourself will necessarily conform to the amount of atrophy you had fallen to at that time. Hence the unavoidable conclusion that one must be in a school situation for the entirety of one (infinite) existence. This is the only way to challenge your mind at the level that keeps it from atrophy. Of course, one must have a plan in place to support this activity at the very same time. No doubt some of your schooling will be geared toward a trade that can finance that plan. But there should never come a time in which you are out of a school setting. Yes, you read it here right. Crazy? But think of all the doctor/lawyer/psychologist/biologist/philosophers we will have. Think of the kind of peace on earth that can come about when we have a world of mostly educated students. Students are against war, for the most part. How many today finish school and unconsciously decide that they are also finished learning? Probably the majority. Go find a school today. The only requirements are:
1) a professor,
2) a class of fellow students on your level,
3) a challenging subject matter that stimulates your mind.
3) the course load should be as great as you can handle.
--ONE NATION
