Analysis Of David Foster Wallace's Speech 'Knowledge'

David Foster Wallace's speech is to show the value in liberal arts college. In the passage David Foster Wallace writes, "I have come gradually to understand that the liberal-arts cliche about "teaching you how to think" is actually shorthand for a much deeper, more serious idea "Learning how to think" really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience." He acknowledge not only the value in learning but also the perception towards life that only can gained by going to a liberal arts college. David Foster identify's this type of information as "Knowledge". "The point is that petty,frustrating crap like this exactly where the work of choosing comes
The liberal art schools give one the information that one can use to liberate themselves from the default setting into a person who's well