The Basic Assignment Using the Classification mode as explained in my web page on that mode, do the following assignment. Whereas your first essay focused on some broad social issue, this assignment will ask you to look both outside and inside yourself. I want you to look around yourself and decide what it means to be wise. This assignment relates closely to your own life in that most people today pursue a college education because they want a good job, a better life for themselves and their families. But a college education, if it's a good one, should do more than just certify you for a particular profession.
Trade schools can do that more quickly.
College, beyond merely teaching you a trade, should begin to change you on the inside. It should help you become a better, more incisive thinker, expose you to a lot of different ideas, arouse your curiosity, and begin to grow in you some of the qualities that you admire in other people whom you consider wise. So for this assignment, you will write an essay which tells the reader what you think wisdom is. In that sense, this is a personal essay. But you will decide on and present your definition of wisdom by classifying several of the qualities you believe that the truly wise and well-educated people you know possess , and you will tell stories about these people to illustrate these qualities of wisdom.