University is a piece of it. A large piece. No matter how curious you are, you tend to benefit from learning from others. There is more to university than lear

University is a piece of it. A large piece. No matter how curious you are, you tend to benefit from learning from others. There is more to university than learning from books. You wind up being around folks you wouldn't otherwise be with. For some folks, it is their first experience being without supervision. And stuff like that. It doesn't need to be university for all so long as there is some sort of schooling that meets these needs for folks. We can start doing adult-lite at 15/16 and have people move into dorms their last couple of years. Doesn't mean that a lot of folks wouldn't benefit from university or something akin to it: A chance to have an intensive course learning another language, for example, with the goal of fluency. You can't force anyone into being kind, and some folks are simply going to be sour. We do start teaching folks as children, after all. Make peace with the fact that some individuals aren't going to be: That's OK so long most folks are and it shows in society and programs that help others.