We, as a modern society, have lost something along the way to a higher education: moral and civil upbringing. The universities — and schools, in general — no longer teach young people values: they teach data that is, hopefully, going to be applied at a future position in a company.

Literally, no. I'm a drop out from some run of the mill community college not and not some liberal institution like Berkley and even there classes are steeped in discussions on how to navigate the world virtuously. I even had to take a class called, of all things, "Ethics." In my time in college, I was exposed to conversations from everything from how to properly collect, store, and present data to patient/doctor or client/lawyer confidentiality, the power of cultural expression, health care, poverty, on and on and on. If anything, people were embracing the exercise of trying to learn how to be more ethical and figuring out what that does and doesn't involve.

I think it's an issue of "I don't understand where I am in the world, what I stand for and what am I". It's an issue of a growing person building up their personality and trying things out to see what sticks.

That's literally what adolescence and young adulthood is for. College kids get lucky because they get a few more years and a safe haven to experiment even further.

I think there ought to be something in the education system to help prevent going radical through educating about the world at large.

You mean classes like art, literature, history, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and ethics? Any combination of which can be found at any non-technical school?

Things that are supposed to get taught by the real life that so many people unfortunately miss due to the way the modern societal infrastructure has grown.

College is for building up fanciful ideas. Real life is for figuring out what actually sticks.

We're more isolated and lonely than ever, and I wonder how many young adults entering university this year even know how to do their taxes.

I blame the internet.

There ought to be something we can do to accommodate for it.

I say burn down the internet.