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From: mauney@ncsu.UUCP (Jon Mauney)
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Subject: Re: The purpose of Universities
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Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 10:56:47 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 17 10:56:47 1985
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 >  From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee)
 >  
 >  Personally, when I attended college/university, I was looking for
 >  "learning" that would make life better for me.
 >  Sorry to say, I found little of value there.  In the end, I came to the
 >  conclusion that a person would learn more in four years of life than in
 >  four years of college.
 >  
 >  Look around your university.  Do you see many adults attending classes?

I wholly disagree.  I learned a lot at college.  Besides graph theory,
modern algebra, linquistics, a little bit of music theory and ancient
history (which I probably would not have learned on my own)  I learned
a lot of other things.  I met people from all over the country; in grad
school I met people from all over the world.  I was exposed to many different
things, from people smoking dope around the Bell Tower, to preachers
talking hellfire and damnation in front of the Student Union.  I had time
to stop and listen to the preachers, to Velikovsky expounding his theories,
to do a little research on Druidism to support a prank I had started.  Now
I spend all my time on more important things, like working and fixing up
my house and visiting my in-laws.

I have also learned a lot since graduating.
But what one learns in school and what one learns in life are not exactly
the same;  both are valuable.
-- 
Jon Mauney,    mcnc!ncsu!mauney         North Carolina State University

(of course, some might claim I never left school and enter "real life")