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Please compose two short essays. Each short essay should be typed, contain a header with your name on the top, and be uploaded below. File format for upload must be doc, docx or pdf.
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Essay #1
In an essay of about 300 words, explain why you want to be in the Waynesburg University Honors Program. Include in your answer what you hope for from the program and what you can bring to it. In addition, touch on how you have taken some responsibility for your own learning in the past and what strengths you have as a student.
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Essay #2
Write a 300-word response to one of the following quotations:
“Knowledge precedes the cultivation of virtue, because no one can faithfully seek that of which he is ignorant.” - John of Salisbury
“There is nothing which so instructs a reasonable creature as the exercise and experience of many different things.” - Christine de Pizan
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” - Thomas Jefferson
“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” - G.K. Chesterton
“Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life.” - John Dewey
“I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.” - Flannery O’Connor
“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious thing we have.” - Albert Einstein
“Science is much more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking.” - Carl Sagan
“I am a reteacher. The one student who takes my course over and over again is myself. That course is never the same; when it becomes the same, I hope I shall know enough to stop teaching.” - Philip Rieff
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