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doubtful and persistently confused mind
and satiate every uncertainty it
possesses.
Universities give us information,
valuable knowledge. Great. Google does
that too. Then what’s the difference? The
difference is that although Google might
provide us information, it leaves a major
gap when it comes to determining what
part of that information is actually
essential for us, in order to live our lives
to the fullest.
As a young adult, when an individual
enters the domain of a university,
leaving the secured den of his family, it
helps him garner an enlarged outlook of
the world outside, the world we so often
term as the ‘real world’.
Unlike what the orthodoxies would like
us to believe, the incontrovertible or
dogmatic part of universities related to
grades is the most insignificant part of
the system. This doesn’t necessitate that
grades aren’t important. They are
important because it gives your future
employer an insight of how much
dedicated you were while studying in
university, because as a student the only
task expected from us is to complete the
amount of studies that we have been
allocated and if someone does that, it
means that, that individual was dedicated
enough to bear through the tough
grading system and successfully passed
the evaluation. This is important because
its solid evidence for your employer that
you won’t slack off once you have been
hired since your previous track record
shows that you are an amazingly
dedicated person. And in the workplace,
dedication matters more than your
subject knowledge.
So how do universities actually help us?
The discourse that takes place in and out
of class, the different responsibilities that
we are expected to carry out, enforces
the life skills required to survive as an
effective adult who can make a
contribution to the society. Not only
does it ensures that we feel the need to
make the world a better place it tells us
exactly how we should do that. This
happens when we get answers to the far
more important questions that bother our
inner soul, the one we so ardently need
to make peace with.
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