Summary Of David Foster Wallace's Commencement Speech

In analyzing David Foster Wallace’s commencement address we find truth behind the myths and stereotypes of liberal arts degrees. I thought his commencement address was excellent. To me the main idea of his speech was showing the audience liberal arts degree curriculum is designed to allow you, the individual the opportunity to think outside of the box and allow you to tools to show you can think and shoes the right way to think about the most significant topics. Wallace even makes a joke to about believing that when he entered in college he knew how to think, how would liberal arts be able to teach him how to reckon. But that's just the surface, it's not about teaching you how to think, but its shaping your individual ideas about what to remember about.

At once I feel that Wallace is trying to tell us about the purpose and value liberal arts education is something that cannot be measured. I believe he was attempting to explain the Liberal Arts degrees gives you the tools and the necessary skills to allow ones thought process to go beyond room Andries and not be so one or one sided in your thought process. Allowing you to be critical about the topics that you do choose to think about and how do you think about those subjects.
being a liberal arts major would I agree with Wallace? I would have to say yes without a shadow of a doubt I have been put in certain sites and because of what I have learned in my degree process it has allowed me to critically and for lack of a better word speak more permit educated standpoint on topics that I would not try in on . But because I have the tools in place and my major has forced me to do things outside of my normal comfort zone I have today opened my eyes more to the world and my heart and allows me to eat in, take this information and I just did and Isis it more critically and then I store it and I use it as needed