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>One reason I think everyone should go to college is to gain exposure to cultures completely different from theirs and lose their sheltered and ethnocentric min
by dilemma 9y ago
>One reason I think everyone should go to college is to gain exposure to cultures completely different from theirs and lose their sheltered and ethnocentric mindset.
This doesn't happen in college but through actually living away from home in another culture. The worst bigots and racists I've met have university degrees.
- cooper12 9y agoLet's be real though, those who need it the most won't go live in another culture exactly because they're so attached to their own. Education is a cheaper way to get the necessary exposure. Regarding your second point, I did make a disclaimer that educated people aren't above this, but in my experience at least higher education encourages more independent thinking, reasoned inquiry, and study than is done in high school or by the uneducated. Opposing opinions are encouraged and healthy debate is pretty common, even with the professor.
- theparanoid 9y agoI don't know what college you went to but mine was very much in-the-box thinking.
- dilemma 9y agoOpposing opinions are never welcome within any social group or system such as the academy, and discussion is always kept between narrow bounds. >but in my experience at least higher education encourages more independent thinking, reasoned inquiry, and study than is done in high school or by the uneducated. Case in point: bigot with a degree.