My experience of college and view of it at the time was that college was supposed to give you job training where applicable and a piece of paper to help you get said job.
High school is where you are supposed to learn critical thinking. College is where you learn to write like people actually write for publications (or you are supposed to anyhow, I think U.S. colleges fail in this regard) and where you study more advanced topics in your chosen field by it academia, medicine, teaching, linguistics, foreign service, math, etc. Oh yeah, and you learn time management.
The things I learned about other folks came mostly outside the classroom. The classroom itself did include some interesting learnings and readings I wouldn't have otherwise encountered and interesting, adult discussions that couldn't be had in high school, but that wasn't really part of my goal as such.
The workload I experienced as High School part II (now with more independence!), but that's because we did blue book essays and other things at my high school that most folks don't do until college.
I did not learn how scholarship and publishing worked until I studied abroad at Edinburgh Uni my junior year. U.S. college is a failure in that regard. You are expected to figure it out yourself.
Anyhow, college can have a point to it, but it depends on the subjects you take.
For many it's just a hoop to jump through to get to the next hoop.
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High school is where you are supposed to learn critical thinking. College is where you learn to write like people actually write for publications (or you are supposed to anyhow, I think U.S. colleges fail in this regard) and where you study more advanced topics in your chosen field by it academia, medicine, teaching, linguistics, foreign service, math, etc. Oh yeah, and you learn time management.
The things I learned about other folks came mostly outside the classroom. The classroom itself did include some interesting learnings and readings I wouldn't have otherwise encountered and interesting, adult discussions that couldn't be had in high school, but that wasn't really part of my goal as such.
The workload I experienced as High School part II (now with more independence!), but that's because we did blue book essays and other things at my high school that most folks don't do until college.
I did not learn how scholarship and publishing worked until I studied abroad at Edinburgh Uni my junior year. U.S. college is a failure in that regard. You are expected to figure it out yourself.
Anyhow, college can have a point to it, but it depends on the subjects you take.
For many it's just a hoop to jump through to get to the next hoop.