At the end of the day, all of our goals and desires are just different means to the same end we all want to be happy. You might say that your answer doesn’t have any relation to what it is that you’re trying to learn, and in response I’d ask you to look a little deeper. To circle back to The Count of Monte Cristo, Edmund was only able to learn everything the priest had to teach him, and to survive years in prison, because of his reason – which was, admittedly, horrible revenge on everyone who had wronged him. The real challenge then is not in the learning, but in finding the why, and this circles back to one of the core questions that Push always encourages people to ask themselves: what do you want from life? If you find the answer to this, then you will have the ultimate reason not only to study, but to truly understand what it is that you are learning. This can be quite easily changed to “He who has a why to study can learn almost any thing.” As the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche famously wrote, “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” Having a personal philosophy in this sense can be boiled down to having an aim, a goal, a reason to study. That being said – again illustrating the difference between knowing something and understanding it – it can still be a lot harder to force yourself to sit down and develop a true understanding of a subject however, and so this is where philosophy comes in. It wasn’t, and the subsequent effort of studying to do the exams again, alongside my A-levels, ended up being far harder than if I’d studied effectively the first time around. I knew facts and snippets and thought this would be enough. To use a personal example, I had to resit a lot of my AS-levels because I didn’t put the effort in to truly understand the subject. Initially, it seems a lot easier to just memorise a set of facts than to cultivate a deep understanding of a subject or topic. If you want to study effectively, then you have to understand what it is you are trying to learn – it is not enough to know that the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell, you need to understand why the cell needs a powerhouse – learning can’t be taken in isolation. The second is a theory or attitude that acts as a guiding principle for behaviour, and it is this second definition that the priest is referring to here. The first is the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge. There is a lot to cover in this quote, and to really unpack it, we need to start at the end.
The first requires memory, the second philosophy.” Learning does not make one learned there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The priest replies: “…in their application, no but in principles yes. Edmond is shocked that he can be taught everything the priest knows in four years, and asks if this is true.
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