Gene Greiner Other Students, Other Problems Gerald Gaff, teacher of literature at the University of Chicago, writes books about higher education. “Other Voices, Other Rooms” is an essay from Culture Wars. The battle he describes is being fought on the college campus by faculty and staff. The majority of the wounded are the students, while the remainder are those teaching. He applies the term "cognitive dissonance” to the students who survive. Gaff states that few …showed first 75 words of 1307 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1307 total…see what… opportunities an education can provide […]” (152). To herald the equipped student while encouraging the uninformed will benefit the student and teacher. An education is a privilege that is a sacrifice for me; to learn all that I can is my desire. To have an interwoven education throughout my courses would be tremendous. Now that I am armed with this knowledge, I am accountable to see the dissonance and even raise my voice to it.