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Old 2007-05-22, 21:23   Link #43
Claies
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Join Date: May 2007
Age: 34
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Originally Posted by WanderingKnight View Post
The purpose of high school is (or rather should be, perhaps) not to transform you into a working member of the society, but rather, to teach you how to think. That's what my high school (the most prestigious public high school of Argentina) taught me, among lots of other stuff. Once you learn how to think, the approach on whatever course you pursue in university will be much different. Now that I'm at the university (no college here), I've met lots of other people who come from crappy high schools, and I swear for the love of Jebus, they can't think. I'm coursing with a girl who also comes from my high school, and we both agreed on the same point. The difference was astounding.

Maybe I'm being a bit elitist here, but that's how I see it.
Not just that, but it teaches how people interact. I won't elaborate, because that is simply your entire paragraph replaced by "interact with people". I took a few pre-college summer courses before, and my roommate...god...I can't imagine him working with anyone in a group.
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