and also college . . ..

What is High School for?  There is the link back to the source, but the list is so on target that I'm quoting the whole thing here.

Perhaps we could endeavor to teach our future the following:

• How to focus intently on a problem until it's solved.
• The benefit of postponing short-term satisfaction in exchange for long-term success.
• How to read critically.
• The power of being able to lead groups of peers without receiving clear delegated authority.
• An understanding of the extraordinary power of the scientific method, in just about any situation or endeavor.
• How to persuasively present ideas in multiple forms, especially in writing and before a group.
• Project management. Self-management and the management of ideas, projects and people.
• Personal finance. Understanding the truth about money and debt and leverage.
• An insatiable desire (and the ability) to learn more. Forever.
• Most of all, the self-reliance that comes from understanding that relentless hard work can be applied to solve problems worth solving.

While it would be splendid if every high school graduate, and therefore every entering college student, had mastered these skills and had cultivated these virtues, most human beings require constant practice in them.  Therefore it is likely that we continue the work of learning these lessons in college as well.  Indeed the essays about Part III and what the group project experience taught about democracy suggest that some of these lessons were in play.