I wish you weren't downvoted, as there is a core insight in it. Back when universities were a thing that young aristocratic elite men attended, part of the impl

I wish you weren't downvoted, as there is a core insight in it. Back when universities were a thing that young aristocratic elite men attended, part of the implicit function was to get potentially troublemaking young men isolated from a lot of greater society while they worked out some of that energy and matured. But I think the modern equivalent is closer to high school, because we have a society that places inherent value on universal grade school education, and thus mandates attendance (anti-truancy, etc). One unfortunate effect is that for some, school ends up feeling like a prison or holding pen just to keep some young people off the street and out of trouble.