Did you preface the teaching of St Augustine with the arguments you just made for it? (fun minutiae , deep meditation, example of great rhetoric), or did you just go &quot;here, read this, it&#x27;ll be on the exam&quot;?<p>In <i>my</i> experience, outside my core curriculum, lecturers <i>never</i> told me <i>why</i> I needed to know something. To me, the social sciences were about as fun to study as getting teeth-pulled, it was horrendous. To this day, I can&#x27;t remember a single thing I read in college outside of science&#x2F;math&#x2F;engineering.<p>Instead, it was just &quot;here, read this, it&#x27;ll be on the test&quot;. No build up, no explanation on how it&#x27;s going to make my life better, just &quot;your&#x27;e required to know this for the exam&quot;. Thanks, but no thanks.<p>We are literally bombarded with new information constantly, if you really want me to learn it, please explain why it&#x27;s important.