Tertiary education, more specifically undergraduate, but I won’t be opposed to insights on grad+. What’s its overall goal?

How about this question: what’s the ideal point of college? Does your answer change?

Here are some other questions to ponder to help formulate your answer:
>>Is college best described as an institution for the pursuit of knowledge or an institution to equip the future with jobs that enhance and progress our society?
>>Is it more important that you learn or that you get a good GPA?
>>Are exams a necessary part of college, and does the information on exams need to be covered in a professor’s lecture?
>>Is the collegiate environment best described as diversional studying or rigorous schooling?
>>Is the amount of information in college-level classes reasonable for the amount of time and explanation put into a course?
>>Should college be accessible to everyone in a society?
>>Should college be an option everyone? That is, if an average citizen (no learning disorder, etc.) goes to college, should they be able to walk out with a diploma?
>>Should college be required just as high school is for everyone in a society?
>>Should any amount of the outcome of your college degree be based on your peers?
>>Is college a place you go to to check of a list of requirements to obtain a piece of paper that gives you a better-paying job?
>>Is college a place you go to as a means to an end?
>>Is it fair to label colleges as non-profit institutions when they constantly undergo “cutting-edge innovations” that give them more capital while juicing more and more money out of students (and paying the CEOs chancellors pretty pennies)?
>>Is college a place you go to so that other parties can profit off of you while you search a suffering job market with piles of loans?
>>Is college a place you go to to become a passive, functioning member of a broken society and therefore endorsing a corrupt system?

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