In Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury made a pretty good case for why reading and being educated is important. In the quote above, Robin William's character in Dead Poet Society argues that we are a combination of fact and fiction, and both hold their own truths.
Now that we have established purpose in reading, let's go back to The Beginning of our written record. Ancient Lit shows us the order and value of our existence beyond our modern mechanical scientific understandings. Ancient man could see a grand order in the universe without science, and the early creation myths speak on these ideas of our origins and purpose masterfully and artistically. In 7-10 sentences: 1. Defend or argue the ideas above. What are your ideas about our value, purpose, origins, and how we make sense of our existence? 2. Explain the purpose of studying both myth and science. How are they both valuable to understanding human history? 3. What might be a reason for studying ancient literature? Make 3 predictions as to why such old stuff could POSSIBLY be important or relevant today.
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Daisy Martinez
2/8/2016 02:09:13 pm
Robin William's statement is a plausible opinion on how we humans spend our every day life in Earth. I understand that the true purpose of poetry isn't so simple and that there must be a reason to it. His insight about the real purpose of life, makes me agree that there is more to life than meets the eye. Life isn't always about simplicity, but the passion we find in someone,something, or a cause. Studying both myth and science allows students to contrast and compare reality and fantasy. Learning that science is more accurate then myth will also help the students minds mature. I predict that reading older literature will help students be in a better mindset to imagine how life was in the old days compared to now. Reading old literature allows the reader's views expand due to their standpoints. Reading older literature also exposes the reader to different forms of writing.
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April Ruiz
2/8/2016 03:06:59 pm
Robin Williams quote shows what I think about everyday and of course I agree with him. We as human beings yeah we need to be somebody in life to get us by but we as humans NEED to experience love, beauty and poetry they have meaning to our lives. Fact and Fiction both have to be around, if fact was the sun and the moon as fiction there balanced. Without the other there would be chaos wherever you go. Everything must be balanced, balance is the key. As for studying myth and science, Myth gives us an idea on how others think the people that created those myths had a wide imagination. Science however, is of course based on fact. Science gives us an explication for our existence and what led us to be here today. Old Literature gives us as people an idea on how people in the past wrot, thought, and spoke. It gives us know lager and reassurance when we think "oh, I wonder how they did this before it came to this" everything is here for a reason.
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Vanessa Enriquez
9/9/2016 02:46:30 pm
I agree with Robin Williams. One of the great pleasures in life is reading and writing. Where would we be without it? Writing allows us to write down our mistakes and acknowledge them. Writing inspires us to be better people and to keep trying.
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Adrian wilson
12/1/2017 02:56:36 pm
I think that our existence is much deeper that what we see and feel every day. Every day is a new day with so many new adventures and things to learn to expand our knowledge. We need to constantly be working on ourselves as much as we can so we can be the best we could be all together and work together. Reading, writing, science, and so much more helps us understand more about our existence. Science plays a big role in our existence because without it, we wouldn’t be as technologically advanced as we are toady. Our purpose is to live and love. If everyone worked on themselves and loved themselves and others with respect, there wouldn’t be any problems in this world. Studying myths or conspiracy theories can make you realize things that you never even thought would be possible. I feel like everyone should study that kind of stuff and we should make it a class in highschool, but the government wouldn’t allow that. Three reasons why its important to learn ancient literature is because its interesting, helps us learn more about our existence, and it will expand our knowledge for the future.
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bryan
10/25/2019 04:07:02 pm
I feel that the human being has value both at birth and at death since the human race was formed of simple bacteria’s or religious acts is simply how everything is formed from nowhere every day more origins are discovered ,more beliefs and to tell the truth we are the biggest question about how we where created, I feel it is important study science because thanks to it we can discard what is myth and what is reality or possibly a little of both but science is more there and personally i feel that the world would be lost if science did not exist because thanks to it we save or discover something new in life that is why i feel it is valuable and important because of the theories born science and science we define when something is only a myth , a myth is when they cannot raise so many tests to know if something is real or when they are only stories that are more discovered , i feel that ancient literature is good since it can explain things that the moment many belief or scientific methods would be confusing for example that maybe you see it silly or unusual at the time but that before it was very important or could even help us to draw new theories of old things you never know.
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Noah
9/8/2020 12:45:49 pm
I think that our existence is much deeper that what we see and feel every day. Every day is a new day with so many new adventures and things to learn to expand our knowledge. I feel it is important study science because thanks to it we can discard what is myth and what is reality or possibly a little of both but science is more there and personally i feel that the world would be lost if science did not exist because thanks to it we save or discover something new in life .Three reasons why its important to learn ancient literature is because its interesting, helps us learn more about our existence, and it will expand our knowledge for the future.
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Blade Riggs
9/8/2020 01:16:31 pm
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Juliana Caudilo
9/7/2021 06:41:44 pm
I agree with Robbin Williams we read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.And the human race is filled with passion.The reason for our existence only reason that we are here is because we are somehow required to be in order that we may serve some purpose in a grand plan. My ideas about our value is that values give us our sense of purpose. On a leadership level, when we align with our values on a daily basis, we have more energy and feel more fulfilled because we are leading from what’s important to us. When we don’t align with our values, we feel less authentic and become demotivated about our daily lives, which reflects in our leadership. The purpose of myths is to reveal that the human person is more than a material being. Myths remind us of our sacred, transcendent nature, and they teach and inspire us to live heroic lives of virtue and truth. The reason for studying ancient literature Ancient literary works provide original ideas and further influencing the literary efforts of posterity. Besides this it reflects the culture, social fabric and cult of ancient people.
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brian
9/8/2021 01:02:58 pm
intresting
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David Ponitz
9/6/2022 10:17:48 am
I agree with Robin Williams because I feel that we all have a purpose in this world and we all have something for us. When we study both science and myth because we still Don't know about the whole universe. We as people still need to figure out most things when it comes to time and space. They are both very valuable to people because most, like to study the world and what goes on in it. Some people have their old hobby of trying to figure out what goes on in the planet as a job, and they help us out by telling us about the facts. I think we study ancient literature so we know about our background as people, where we all came from and how we survived back in the days of the ancient times. So I would agree with Robin Williams.
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Adrian Vasquez
9/6/2022 10:32:57 am
Myself i do agree with Rob Williams, since we all do have a purpose in this world. Us as people and humans need to come to a sense's about time and space. Noticing about what's going on and what its all about in the world.
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gabriela leon
9/6/2022 10:34:18 am
the purpose of human existence is much deeper than we think. I think we all have a purpose in life but it just depends on us if we complete it or not. Many say we were created by god and that god made us for a reason but is this just a myth? Myths are just story's passed though generations and sometimes we chose to belive them. Science on the other hand is the facts its not something we "think" is true its something we know its true. Studying Ancient literature can give us an insight of how much the word has evolved. Old stuff can be really important, it can give us answers to questions we once had about the past. It can also show us where we came from as well as who we are as humans. finally it can lead us to knew discoverys.
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Adaobi Metu
9/6/2022 08:34:32 pm
I agree with Robin Williams because I believe that we all have purpose in life and that we are all here for a reason. The purpose of studying both myth and science. Is because we can know more about myths and science. Because there is still more we don't know. They are both valuable to understanding human history because. Some people want to understand human history and its values. Some reasons for studying ancient literature might be. Some people would like to know how ancient literature works and how the world works and also our own history about people. One reason for studying ancient literature could be that it can help us as humans learn and study more from our past and where we came from.
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Tatiana Velasco
9/11/2022 09:19:47 pm
I agree with Robin Williams that we all have a purpose in the world. Even if we as the human race don't completely understand what our purpose is, we still learn as grow. We learn about myth because it gives us some sort of idea what people believed before using science became more common. We use science to understand things on a more realistic method instead of using myths that may or may not be true, we don't really know. As mentioned before we don't know much about way back when, so using old information like myths helps us. We also us old myths today because of how they have affected how we view things. When we use the knowledge from the people back then used we learn something knew today and that's why I think it's important to use ancient literature.
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