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At the beginning of my classes I usually ask students why they are in college and they tell me things like, “it is a four year vacation,” “the parties are goo d,” “it will get me a good job later,” “it is what everyone does so I never thought about an alternative” and so on. The issue of learning never comes up. Why is that? School isn’t really about learning at all. It is about certification. College students attend school to get a degree that they hope will get them something they want. They pick schools on this basis, and they attend school with the concomitant attitude. We never ask a student if he learned a lot, we ask how well he did. Self-evaluation is based on the judgment of others when it comes to “official” learning. Students feel they did well when others say they did well. It is the rare student who says that he learned a great deal and thus was very happy with his education.

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