> 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

> 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?