&quote;What for You is Reality&quote;

Essay from the year 2006 in the subject Philosophy - Miscellaneous, University College Dublin, course: Social Science, language: English, abstract: Now that the summer season is coming to an end and another study term beckons one might be interested in the thoughts of the acclaimed author and “thinker” Robert M. Pirsig and his book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".I had heard of this book but had never read it (and, as someone who wonders about " things" wondered why I should have discovered this particular book at this particular time in a second hand bookshop in Florida... in fact the dusty musty bookshop with the eccentric grumpy bookseller wearing a pair of lopsided spectacles that were held together with a sticking plaster could have been straight out of a book itself...) anyway Pirsig (speaking essentially about his own experiences) writes about teaching, were …you teach and you teach and you teach with no time for contemplation or research... you just teach and teach and teach until your mind grows dull and your creativity vanishes...He goes on to explore the question, what makes an educational establishment? Is it the building? The design of the building maybe, the name of the university or college or school?Is it the physical structure, the bricks and mortar that constitute the educational establishment? As he thought about this he begins with reference to a church building which had been sold and was now being used as a bar with all sorts of raucous and drunken behaviour taking place. Quoting from his book