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Re: The promise of college for our generation
This is just a different perspective -
We have an 85 year old student at the university where I work. She has been enrolled for the 23 years that I know of and has amassed degrees and hours that I can only guess at.
She will joke and say the reason she stays enrolled is for the student health insurance. While there may be some truth to that, I think she uses the insurance to help her with the extra oxygen tanks that she needs while she follows her sherpa to higher learning.
She broadens the horizons for her classmates and for her professors every year and my thinking is that her high school education was probably a lot different than the high school programs that proliferate now.
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