Review: The Purposeful Graduate, Part II | National Catholic Reporter

Review: The Purposeful Graduate, Part II | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: It is interestting that marriage is such a focus.  It makes me wonder if this program is as much indoctrination as it is exploration.  As for the non-marital aspects, I am sure that students find their purpose - just asking the question is what we call a Hawthorne effect - ask someone about their vocation and they think about it and try to come up with an answer that sounds intelligent - do that enough and they start believing it.  Sounds a bit more like indoctrination.  I wonder about the hard numbers, the ones that go beyond the Maslovian Self Actualaization that seems to be in play here.  How do incomes compare with students in the same school and major that did not participate?  Also, the civic side is interesting.  One thing they teach in graduate politial science is where it came from.  It turns out that before separate academic majors existed, everyonoe wrote their Senior Thesis on a political science topic.  I wonder if the discussion in these events is also leading to that exploration.  Not saying its a bad thing, but lets be clear on what we are doing.  I am sure the same kind of thing would happen if the Landmark Forum and subsequent courses were added as electives. Now that would be interesting.