On Thursday 26 Jun 2008 5:57:15 pm Badri Natarajan wrote: > This is pretty much the story of my university education
Usually a realization that comes with the passage of time - when college recedes so far into the past that you get a better perspective of what college taught you versus what you learned outside college. People learn a lot of things that you learned in your college without going to your college. And they also learn a great deal that you did not learn. But one tends to figure this out only after you've really got out of college and washed its hangover away completely. Six years out of college I started seeing what college did not teach me, But it took me 25 years out of college to learn a lot of stuff that college could not teach me. Having said that i must point out that I spent 12 years in college - which is difficult unless you believe you are getting something out of it, But when you get out your mind is so full of college and the people there that you are unaware of a world outside. And your faculty, who live on site know nothing else and their self image revolves around the centrality of their lives in the college/University. I once wrote an article about this feeling on my alumni website - a feeling that I got after meeting a lot of smart people on CiX. shiv
