ANU

Generally I dislike the idea of Universities, even though I'm University educated, I feel my 4 years of time would have been better spent in the real world.


My gripe with Universities is that they are disconnected from the real world, so they are a breading ground for misinformation. It goes like this, university lecturers become lecturers because (for what ever reason) they cannot function in the real world, so they carry around a false perception in their minds of what the real world is, they unwittingly pass this on to their students.
When the students graduate, they generally have two paths to take, firstly look for employment in the real world, this can be a failure dependent on the amount of misinformation they have been fed during their study. When this fails (or by choice) they end up back at their university, they find easy employment here, because they know the system and have similar failed ideas as those that employ them, eventually they might find themselves as lecturers, feeding the same misinformation to their students. You can see the loop.


The ANU is a perfect example of this, in my dealings with the ANU, you would think that the ANU is simply on a different planet when it comes to real world dealings. Those who are employed there like this security, as it is a cosy little world, so much so that the ANU is known as the 'retirement village'.