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You might be interested in this article by Amin Aminfar from the Trinity Forum Academy's online newsletter CONVERSATIONS. The opening text is below; see this link for the rest: http://www.ttf.org/index/conversations/detail/reality-reconsidered/ ---------- Reality Reconsidered Amin Aminfar (’03) is finished with grad school but is still learning. “There is no phrase more semantically empty than ‘the real world.’ Once one enters the real world, apparently, the airy considerations of Christian community—or the kind of idealism that corresponds to a “protected” learning experience—must give way to harsher truths of driving to work and paying the bills.” There is no phrase more semantically empty than “the real world.” And this is something of a surprise, given the way that the phrase looms in the consciousness of young people, or at least has been invoked over that consciousness as a kind of boogeyman, sent to scare students onto the path of hard-nosed pragmatism about their lives. For it is to students that the phrase is spoken, used to draw a contrast between their lives as students and their lives after being students which, because these lives at least notionally involve mortgages, taxes, and the like, have this quality of concreteness that qualifies them for membership in “the real world.” ---------- The entry has 915 more words. http://www.ttf.org/index/conversations/detail/reality-reconsidered/