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Because the point of college is to challenge your ideas and beliefs, not shelter and reinforce.

• alanwatts 10y ago
  Depends on the college and the administration really.
  • lsadam0 10y ago
    If I take a car to an establishment labelling themselves as a 'Car Wash', and their washing method consists of flinging mud all over the car....said establishment isn't a very good car wash, is it?
    • alanwatts 10y ago
      The word "college" is much more ambiguous than "car wash". Latin root: collegium: 'partnership, association' Certain religious colleges for example tend to shelter and reinforce their respective beliefs more than challenge them.
      • lsadam0 10y ago
        So they're not very good car washes.
• kaitai 10y ago
  But to stretch my analogy, very few people live in the living room only. Classes, academic activities, sports teams, your dorm where an evangelical pro-lifer is stuck with a girl who already had an abortion in one room and where a gay farmer boy and a sheltered foreign student from Saudi Arabia are in another room -- those are where your ideas and beliefs are challenged!