Document Type
Coming of Age and Education Essay
Publication Date
2007
Excerpt
The comparison between studiousness and love of God is not a common one in today's culture. Most are taught, at least in a public school system, that religion and education have little overlap. Yet Simone Weil feels differently, expressing that there is a correlation between attentiveness in school and the growth of one's love of God. She is not conveying that they are the same, but that the principles learned in the first can help increase the second. In Weil's essay "Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God," she discusses the relationship between the focus of one's attention in school studies and the growth of one's love for God. Her essay can also relate to the change attention makes in Amir's relationship with Sohrab in Khaled Hosseini's novel The Kite Runner.
Recommended Citation
Ferringer, Anne, "Focusing the Attention (2007)" (2007). The Valpo Core Reader. 100.
http://scholar.valpo.edu/core_reader/100