1001 thoughts: part Psychology
People die, nations are born and fall, but ideas live on. Reality, that we can take philosophy classes, psychology, religion, humanities, sociology or politics, seems absurd to many. They argue that the whole point of education is to get a job and that to get a job you need practical skills or a certain set of easily applied knowledge. From the point of view of these goals, the study of the "big ideas" of the humanities or social sciences is strange at best and meaningless at worst.
When you listen to the audiobook 1001 Thoughts, that changed our thinking, one of the most important things, that you'll realize, it's, how fundamentally wrong all those who judges education by that alone, how many jobs it creates. After just a few minutes of listening it will become clear to you, that discoveries, inventions and knowledge, that have profoundly affected our lives, arose not only from technological, scientific and engineering branches of the intellectual landscape, but equally from the humanities and social sciences. After all, the technical field flourishes only if it is firmly established in the broader context of the big ideas that make its development possible.
A rich history of fundamental ideas, that can be found in this audiobook, Moreover, it reveals one important truth-- that what makes life meaningful, is not simply found in education, that prepares a person, to excel in computer programming, in advertising, in bioengineering or business. We can only give meaning and purpose to our lives through the engagement of big ideas that allow us to take our own position on fundamental issues and defend it.