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The Role Of University

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  • most of what you REALLY need to know can't be learned, but is the result of experience.

    • In the society we learn how to sell water in desert, while in the university we learn how to buy water in desert.
      • I like concise expression like this, but I add the explanation.

        In the desert where water is scarce, people are generally eager to get water, so naturally they tend to spend much money just for water. Water will be sold much more expensive in the desert than other areas. So all we have to do in a society is to try to sell water in the desert as much as we can so that we can make a lot of money. This is what we have to learn from the society.

        On the other hands, it is not a easy task for us to acquire knowled

    • most of what you REALLY need to know can't be learned, but is the result of experience.

      That may be true... however, if it is true it's because we often don't know how to utilize what the University experience is offering. I recently began college in my mid twenties with a wife, child and one on the way... my life experience is much more than the average undergrad and for me college is a very enlightening experience. Particulary in the areas of fundamental self-expression.

      For example, college has helped me w
      • I've seen it too, that people who didn't go to college directly after high school, but do eventually go, are VASTLY better prepared to actually LEARN what the university has to teach. Those who go directly after high school just because it's expected of them are rarely ready to truly learn.

        For that reason alone it seems to me we ought to stop forcing the expectation of everybody needs to go to college. Just let people go when they are ready to go. A few years of real-world work (low wage work, for lack o
        • A few years of real-world work (low wage work, for lack of advanced education) usually does the trick...

          LOL! I couldn't have said it better myself.

          Cheers... :)
    • Let me start with my personal experience in the university. I never had a part time job in my school days. Even just one time, never. If I were asked what I was doing, I can't help but reply that I was studying and reading a book and writing a thesis, that was all what I was doing.

      But my case is very different from the case of other students. Many students had a part-time job, and enjoying their holidays with their intimate friend. Some student naturally started to have a romantic relationship with their b

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