The College Way of Thinking

In college you will learn how to think. But not really. You'll just learn another way to see things. You'll be told it's the only way to look at things. If you go against the status quo, or form your own opinions you'll be ousted, called names, and made to be an outcast.

What to do? 

So how do you deal with this? Do you just go with the flow, or do you form your own thoughts and opinions? They'll tell you to challenge what people say and to think critically of it. When you do actually go and form your opinion you're told that your thinking to extremly, or that your thoughts don't make sense just because. 

The Point of College

As I was going into college I believed that the point was a higher education. I thought it was

supposed to help me put my education on a platform, not a soapbox, as my English101 teacher would say. 

My first few classes in college involved me being told to think critically of everything, then that being followed by being told how I should see everything. Watching a disqusting music video, and reading lyrics that attacked multiple groups of people, argued for fascism (Anyone remember that guy Hitler?) and used very foul language. All of these items considered good. Does that help me raise the level of my education? Filling my head with foul language, and ideas that fascism is a good thing. 

The teacher asked why the singers target audience was teenagers. One of my fellow classmates raised his hand. The teacher called on him and he said, "Because we're teens you can change our minds the easiest of any groups." The teacher responded, "Exactly! That's why it's good that you're here now!" Does this shock anyone? 

From a glance it seems like telling everyone how to think and what to think is a good thing. Everyone would agree on everything, and everyone would think the right things. But who has the power to choose what the right thing to think is? If I don't believe in homosexual marriages, then that's my right as an American. As long as I'm not harming them why can't I have that opinion? In college though you are taught that to think anything other than gay marriage as being okay is a very bad thing. 

I picked gay marriage because it's a very hot topic right now, but it's the same thing for every other topic. 

Conclusion

Don't go to college to be taught how to think. Go to college to practice your ability to think and reason. Remember though, to be able to practice something you must already possess the skill. College doesn't have to be a waste.

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