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College isn't about learning, it's about developing intellectually.

• barry-cotter 16y ago
  I challenge you to develop that statement, so that I know what you meant to say rather than imputing it. An uncharitable interpretation would be that college could be taught with no resources beyond those available at secondary school, since in a number of fields it would be quite possible to use the secondary school intellectual tools to construct your own knowledge, e.g. 30 motivated Math students might be able to rederive up to Calculus II or III given four years to do it.
  • tybris 16y ago
    At college, you develop yourself intellectually, through interaction with peers, professors, understanding complex material, finding the fundamental insights that underly your field, building an maintaining a network, developing your skill as a leader and/or a team player, learning how to read and write at a sophisticated level, and how to go beyond these things. Your brain is a living organ that needs training like a muscle, but it is incomparably more complex than any other part of your body. You need to run with the best to be able to follow their footsteps, to foster the techniques and gain the insights that will lead you into a wealthy, interesting and happy life and perhaps one that can change the world. You don't need to be aware of all of this when you're in it, it happens in the ingenious way in which college has developed itself, even if you drop out. I don't know which philosopher is to blame for the idea that a brain is some kind of black box and school is there to put knowledge in it, but I'd send him back to college.