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This faith course has taught me a lot about real learning. I've learned that by stopping and taking a few moments to think things over, the choices made will be both different and much more well thought out. I believe this is the most important thing because even though knowledge of all the topics and textbook information is useful, the ability to analyze a situation and think through it is one of the most useful skills that we can have, and I believe I can apply it to nearly every single thing I do.
Another important idea that I picked up from this course goes hand in hand with thinking things through and that would be taking it to more a more specific level...thinking about my morals, faith, and religion. Many of the philosophical things discussed like Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" led me to start considering my own life, and truly looking deep at what I do and what I believe in. I feel that, religiously, if I were to get nothing out of the course, I'd at least have the ability to come up with an idea for my own faith and an explanation to what God is and what I believe in. I already have changed my views since the course started, I don't know if for better or worse, but I feel they are stronger now than ever.
