The Dark Night Of The Soul Analysis
Beliefs and Education
Is religious belief a contributing factor to success in education? It’s a difficult concept to measure, but worth thinking about because religious beliefs pre-date inquiry by reason or science, which are recent channels for human learning. With careful examinations, the range of religion’s influence can be established, shedding light on whether religion really makes better students.
The writer Darren Sherkat does not find a direct relationship between religion and college excellence, yet consents that indirectly many factors could be at play where it has influence. Of these, the most profound is if religion can quell the human anxiety which Richard Miller describes in his essay “The Dark Night of the Soul” – an anxiety which he argues may be the intellectual consequence of the educational system itself.
Many factors can influence students: how couldn’t it be, with the ever-growing cultural, intellectual and geographic diversity of college campuses? However difficult it may be to pinpoint solitary benefits attained through religion but several can be argued. For example, “Alcohol and substance abuse is the top predictor of negative educational outcome.”(Sherkat). Alcohol as well as any substance abuse goes directly against most conventional religious and moral codes. As the Bible tells us, “Envy, …show more content…
John of the Cross. The poem describes the struggle faithful Christians undergo when their faith is tested. In the modern university context, this struggle may get little respect no less relief from the environment. The religious student is alone. Yet by providing students with a firm foundation to rely on and to dimish the anxiety of the “Dark Night of the Soul,” religion may be very helpful for students. The confident religious student may save precious energy on the existential struggle and focus on the subject at hand, which could lead to better
Is religious belief a contributing factor to success in education? It’s a difficult concept to measure, but worth thinking about because religious beliefs pre-date inquiry by reason or science, which are recent channels for human learning. With careful examinations, the range of religion’s influence can be established, shedding light on whether religion really makes better students.
The writer Darren Sherkat does not find a direct relationship between religion and college excellence, yet consents that indirectly many factors could be at play where it has influence. Of these, the most profound is if religion can quell the human anxiety which Richard Miller describes in his essay “The Dark Night of the Soul” – an anxiety which he argues may be the intellectual consequence of the educational system itself.
Many factors can influence students: how couldn’t it be, with the ever-growing cultural, intellectual and geographic diversity of college campuses? However difficult it may be to pinpoint solitary benefits attained through religion but several can be argued. For example, “Alcohol and substance abuse is the top predictor of negative educational outcome.”(Sherkat). Alcohol as well as any substance abuse goes directly against most conventional religious and moral codes. As the Bible tells us, “Envy, …show more content…
John of the Cross. The poem describes the struggle faithful Christians undergo when their faith is tested. In the modern university context, this struggle may get little respect no less relief from the environment. The religious student is alone. Yet by providing students with a firm foundation to rely on and to dimish the anxiety of the “Dark Night of the Soul,” religion may be very helpful for students. The confident religious student may save precious energy on the existential struggle and focus on the subject at hand, which could lead to better