> > I plan to say here that it ain't always best to do as everyone else.
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> That's good advice, in general. After all, we're all different. But I think it's deceptively attractive, in that it is tempting to apply it where it should be.
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Well put.

> That leads us to the question at hand: is college for everyone? "College" isn't one thing.

Agreed, but neither is it everything, or indeed most. This difference is, you'll note, impossible to prove ;).

> Unlike high school, where everyone learns pretty much the same things (there's a little variation, but it's basically all the stuff that EVERYBODY should learn), college is extremely diverse. The average university has *thousands* of courses, and in a four year program, you'd probably only take roughly 30-35 of them. College is not analogous to tomatoes, which may be right for some and not for others.

But still, it has been argued in this forum, that what you gain from "college" is not so much the factual information that you digest --however efficient this digestion may be-- it is the personal development that you undergo. And I think that the crux of Mike Dikks and my argument is that this development may as well take place other places. However, I must say that I beleive "college" to be the safest choice...

Julian