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Yes, that's often the common contrast between higher education and the early years: first, you gain knowledge and learn facts, you memorize by rote, you pass st
by AStonesThrow 2y ago
Yes, that's often the common contrast between higher education and the early years: first, you gain knowledge and learn facts, you memorize by rote, you pass standardized tests.
In college/university, you learn how to think. You learn how to reason. You increase wisdom, solve problems, and reach an intellectual maturity. That's always been the value of college for me; a degree being a means to an end, perhaps, but the quest for wisdom and reason is far greater than that of career.
- randomdata 2y ago> In college/university, you learn how to think. I learned how to think on the farm after school. You don't have much choice but to when the shit gets real. Is the rise in college attainment directly a result of most kids no longer having access to farms (or even anything close to being equivalent)? > That's always been the value of college for me The historic value was collaboration on ideas. It is all well and good being able to think in solitude, but one can only think so much. Many people all thinking at once and sharing their thoughts is an incredible force multiplier. College offered a place for minds to come together. I'd argue that the internet has become that place nowadays. Which is perhaps why you see college as a metaphorical farm these days instead?
- AStonesThrow 2y agoThank you for that cool insight and perspective. Indeed, not all of us need college to reach intellectual maturity. A good family farm is a great way to face the realities of nature and day-to-day human existence. Our retired bishop was raised on a farm, and despite his subsequent education and formation, I daresay it would've been life on the farm that prepared him for life in the church, and he may well agree!