[nilaykumar]

"You walk out of the classroom with new cognitive pathways that you didn't know you had. You'll never see the world with the same eyes again."

I couldn't have put it better myself. I came into my required undergraduate philosophy course doubting that I'd get anything out of it (having mostly finish the undergrad physics+math majors)... and I was pleasantly surprised.

[calinet6]

Bingo. It's all about learning new ways to think about anything. It's like a multiplier on all the knowledge you've ever had and will ever have in the future.

[im3w1l]

Is there empirical evidence for this?

[calinet6]

Please, this is philosophy.