To manage time. To not be afraid or rejecting. The goal of a college education ought to be to prepare people for the wise exercise of the personal freedoms we so richly enjoy. Knowing how to live up to our highest aspirations - how to choose well what we want to be and do, this is the opportunity that college offers us as individuals. As for society, no society that values freedom can afford to underestimate, even for an instant, the value of higher education.
College is where visionary minds go to be challenged, grow, and mature.
It is also where people go who aspire to have visionary minds. At just such times a little voice goes off in my head. Often, just when we think we're not getting through at all we experience a wonderful epiphany. David is a big man, generally good- humored but with a quick temper. According to his mother, he had a history of violent behavior.