"The Logical Song"

This will be a short entry as I simply want to make a connection between the song and "Our English Syllabus". I said earlier that in American society there can be a lot of pressure (or at least I felt a lot of pressure) to go to college. The writer of the "Logical Song" really seems to have suffered from this pressure. I believe it is because he did not want to learn for learning's sake, an idea Lewis suggests. Without the desire for learning we become "cynical" as the song states, and perhaps bitter. Learning should never be a chore, it should be desired. It is a failing of our education system if we cannot motivate students to want to learn, and that is perhaps the most valuable thing a teacher can impart to a student,