Meiland Essay Paragraph 1

　　　　　　I disagree with the idea that college is useless because we can learn the way of thinking. There are two main points to explain my idea. To begin with, it’s necessary to know not only how to solve the specific problem but how to think sort of problems. For example, if you know the answer of the particular question, you can answer the question, of course. However, it is meaningless that you can’t solve other questions which you don’t know previously. In my opinion, you can solve questions which you didn’t know by learning the way of thinking. If you know how to think first, you will be able to reach the answer of the question on your own. Next, you have to learn the important attitude or skills in the college. In Meiland’s “College Thinking”, he said that “the content is not the main point. Much of the content that you are taught in college will be outmoded or discarded anyway in ten or twenty years. Learning intellectual skills and attitudes is far more important.” To illustrate, it’s not important to remember the answer of the specific problem but you have to remember the way of thinking and the way of acting when you are faced with a difficult problem because the skills which you learned in college will be useful in later life. Therefore, college is useful to learn the way of thinking.