To Explore the Unknown

[1] People attend college or university for many different reasons (for example, new experiences, career preparation, increased knowledge). Why do you think people attend college or university? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Our new century has seen an increasing amount of university or college students, who are rushing for incommon experiences, better career preparation or pure knowledge. But I think the most important reason for them is to explore the unknown part of human beings.

Universities and colleges are born for researches in all sorts of sciences and dredging up the hidden truth. In the early days, Newton figure out gravity to explain why apples would fall down onto the ground and developed the famous Newton mechanics. Cauchy, Gauss and other mathematicians founded the basic theory of mathematics, such as mathematical analysis, non-Euclidean geometry and so on. They extended our understanding of the universe, showed us the lasting facts about all kinds of structures.

Human beings themselves are being challenged and discussed in details in universities and colleges. We ask ourselves tough questions, who we are, why we are here, what we are looking for. It's the ultimate care for our species, to understand ourselves better, to get the motivation clear in mind and to tell others what is important in life. Philosophers quarrel about them, biologists analyze the physical structure of humans and psychiatrists try to cure our mental diseases. There's no moment we stop exploring the unknown part of ourselves.

The most important difference of a university to a high school is that it's not knowledge accumulated during the past decades that counts. It's our curiosity about the unknown part of the world and ourselves that differs and compels us to find the answers, which universities and colleges are built for.

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