College

[Fengzi]

To say education makes you smarter would be wrong. True, it does cram you full of facts and figures, and it does help you to understand a lot of different concepts, etc, but I believe that intelligence is something you're either born with or without.

But at the end of the day, does it make any difference? If you're born not so smart but then get a high level of education, are you any different to somebody born smart but with no formal education? Hmmm.... I shall meditate on this. Actually, i'll make a thread on this because i'm bored.

Thanks for the replies, guys..

I always think of it like this: Our brain is like a computer's hard drive. Some people have bigger hard drives than others and some people have faster CPU's than others. Education is just what's loaded on to your hard drive and can come from college or from life.

If you can't get in this semester I suggest learning from life while you wait. Do some travelling, maybe experience a different culture. You won't regret it. I waited several years after I graduated from HS to enter college and value every minute of it. Not only did I have a better understanding of the world around me but I also really knew what I wanted to do when I did go back to school. Anyhow, if you can't get in try to find some way to make the time off valuable to you.



And then again, some people's hard drives are clearly infected with a virus