(August 11, 2015 at 8:53 pm)Alex K Wrote: Dropping the child off at college, such a quintessentially American moment!
Have fun!
Would you care to elaborate on that? You are not, I presume, suggesting that Europeans do not attend college.
Somehow I am thinking that his has to do with geography rather than inherent values. In the U.S., a person may attend a college and be very, very far from home, without leaving the country.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.