They give up their freedom to choose and, instead, are forced to promote oppressive uniformity. They see only what the system shows them and find it difficult to accept any dissenting thought that comes across their desks. This unfortunate attitude, you may well have guessed, leads to the misery of close-mindedness. College offers plenty of resources to help defend its students from the threat of the system. The tragedy is that many of us choose not to call them into service.
Most students decide that college is the initiation process, their induction into the system.
Much like a fraternity's pledging process, college is seen as something to be toughed out. I don't know if you've noticed yet, but most of our science and business classes are just feeding us a bunch of essentially meaningless facts and figures that tell us little about life. We're expected to accept what we're told without responding with personal commentary. We begin to interpret valuable knowledge as only that which is testable. If we're not careful, college teaches us to see everything at face value with no regard for the theory or the beauty that lies beneath.