> 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.

I really don't think so. You could go to *war*, which would pretty much force you to undergo personal development, confront and resolve such issues of God, life, death, responsibility, and morality in a way no other experience could ever equal -- and still not get the benefits of a college education. I'm not downing "living." Just living and surviving in the real world provides an irreplaceable experience that college actually *can't* teach you. Likewise, I believe college to be an irreplaceable and vital experience that *no* other life experience can teach, except in an artificially constructed theoretical life experience that, again let's face it, we're realistically not going to have the opportunity OR ambition to undergo.

Oh well. I guess I've made my point.