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> will be missing their whole lives

it seems rather pessimistic to presume that your education is limited to the classes you chose to study at university.

Not limited but based on your study at university. Most people never again get the chance to learn so much from educated people. I didn't realize and appreciate that when I was a student.

> Most people never again get the chance to learn so much from educated people.

This. I didn't realize it either, and I wish I had. I have a decent number of interactions with educated, intelligent people now, but not with the sort of frequency and intensity with which I had them at university.

I don't know that I ever want to be a proper student again, but I do miss that.

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