Who Really Matters?
In John Henry Newman: “Knowledge and Virtue,” he mentions that “Liberal Education makes not the Christian, not the Catholic, but the gentleman. It is well to be a gentleman, it is well to have a cultivated intellect, a delicate taste, a candid, equitable, dispassionate mind, a noble and courteous bearing in the conduct of life—these are the connatural qualities of a large knowledge;” (Newman par. 1) All because a person has “top notch” education, clothes, and many other things, doesn’t make that person a better person in society. Society has always been the type to place people in a class. A poor man could be just as an important as a rich man. Sometimes people that go to top schools, dress nice, and has a lot of money has a strange back ground. A lot of the times those type of people don’t really get anywhere. The people that we seem to put at the bottom are the people that are very hardworking. They handle what the “upper” class doesn’t. The people at the bottom want what the upper class has, but because of how society has placed everyone, it’s kind of hard to do so. Race plays a big part in society too. Race, gender, class, school, dress code, and plenty of other things don’t make a person better. We focus on getting this and getting that, instead of what we have. Big objects don’t always have to matter. It’s the little ones that bring us out.
