If I went back to college again Id concentrate on two areas: learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.
It may be that we should stop putting so much emphasis in our own minds on the monetary value of a college education and put more emphasis on the intangible social and cultural values to be derived from learning. The time may be coming when we will have to start accepting the idea that education is life not merely a preparation for it.
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
College isnt the place to go for ideas.
I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She couldve gone to UCLA here in California but its one more letter shed have to remember.
A college education shows a man how little other people know.
If I went back to college again Id concentrate on two areas: learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.
It may be that we should stop putting so much emphasis in our own minds on the monetary value of a college education and put more emphasis on the intangible social and cultural values to be derived from learning. The time may be coming when we will have to start accepting the idea that education is life not merely a preparation for it.