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CMV: People should not be encouraged to go to university or college simply to "find themselves"

By "find themselves", I'm referring to the idea that the primary reason for attending college is to develop or experiment with your identity more, and become more mature. I'm not saying that college does not contribute to a person's maturity, but I don't think that it should be anyone's main reason for attending. These are my issues with this viewpoint:

I think the main purpose of college is to educate people who have chosen a specific subject they want to study or train students skills that correspond to a particular career path. People who are attending mainly to change as a person usually are going into college without a particular field in mind, or without career goals that they are actively pursuing. I don't see why people without a clear goal in mind should be encouraged to go to college just because they expect that experience will make them better somehow. College in north america is also incredibly expensive for most people and I don't see why anyone would need to spend that much money in order to find himself/herself. If someone's main reason for studying in college is to become a better person through education, it would make much more sense for that person to simply use the internet and/or library (which don't leave people with huge student loans) to study and explore their interests independently before committing to a degree they make not even be invested in. It honestly confuses me how so many people seem to believe that going to college will change them as a person more than any other experience in life. Again, I would agree that college can change a person for the better. I just think that the decision to attend college should not be based on the expectation that it will somehow help people to "find themselves", and instead be based on having a strong interest in a subject and/or a career in a particular field.
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Most graduate programs don't really care what your undergraduate major was. Most employers don't really care what your undergraduate major was. For Most college graduates - their major literally doesn't matter. The only relevant fact, was that they graduated at all. 

Unless you are literally going into engineering - your major doesn't matter. You can go to Medical School with an English Degree. You can go to Law School with a Chemistry Degree. You can work for a Fortune 500 with a Philosophy Degree or Art History Degree. 

>  think the main purpose of college is to educate people who have chosen a specific subject they want to study or train students skills that correspond to a particular career path. 

Even if you have a particular career path - the specific subjects studied at the college level don't impact your ability to go into that career (except for engineering). 

So why not do some self-exploration while you're there??