Recently Leo Schwartz and Andrew Godinich have, perhaps inadvertently, taken opposing standards of a binary that is as ancient as the first traces of the Neolithic revolution—namely, whether and to what degree praxis, or action, is and should be informed by theory, and from what should we draw upon if we take upon ourselves the task of preparing the conditions of a prosperous future.
Now, when stretched to the widest possible definition, this division has raised hell (as much as angrily-spilled academic ink can be considered "hell") over the nature of human history.
However, I'll leave that question for Aristotle, Hegel, and Marx to answer. I want to focus instead on what both Schwartz and Godinich share in their respective accounts: a deeply felt concern for whether their studies will have been "worth it" once they leave College Walk for good.
