USA and Western Europe are literate countries; it means that almost everyone are able to read,  to write and has attended school. The school systems and print wolrd shaped people in certain  way. That is not the case in Brazil and many developing countries where still a significant  percetage of the population is not literate.

Anyway, when I moved from Brazil to USA, I had  the opportunity to meet parents and enjoy a casual conversations; and whenever I asked them  about their kids they always replied something like that " I have a 6th grader, a 8th grader  and a high school senior". I was puzzled because I could not translate to their age and sex.  I asked again, are they boys or girls, how old are they?
It was a new language...

The effect of the University on us
Marcio and Chico have inspired me to bring more thoughts  on University. The Uni and the school system are powerful media with tremendous influence  on us. What are the effects (messages) of the University on us? In my view...
*What it enhances?
 Learning. Education. Science. Technology. Alienation (the effect of the book, of the point  of view). Uniformity. Homogeneity (lawyers are lawyers, doctors are doctors). Career.  Business. Power.

*When we exaggerate the University "paranoia", it reverses into:
Robot.  Machine. Computer, we're programmed and trained to do smart tasks to fit the economical  systems but we don't question them. The production line dominates our brain.
I think this  is the point that Chico is talking about; this is a real effect on society today.
*What it obsolesces?
 Intuition. Creativity. Sage. Religion. Mythology. Mysticism.

*What it Retrieves?
Reason.  Rationalism. Plato. Aristotle. The Greeks.

We're sensing these effects everyday.
Who  is more or less free from these effects? The artists and the people that didn't attend Uni...

I would guess than more than 90% of the current members of Yubliss went to university, while  less than 10% of the world population did. If that is true, it is not a statistically insignificant  correlation.

So, while I see chico_bee's point, attending university is an opportunity  to positively interact with other thinking people in a structured way (what is Yubliss,  if not a forum with the same general objective?). I don't think it excludes unstructured  interactions and I am not saying not attending university precludes you from being intelligent,  informed or successful. How attending university affects you (making you predictable  or unimaginative, for example) is up to you.

All our universities are factories to kill the spontaneous, to kill the spark, to change man  into a machine.
Then the society feels at ease with him. He can be relied upon. The society  knows what he will do -- he can be predicted. We can predict a husband, a wife, a doctor, a lawyer,  a scientist. We know who they are and how they will behave; we can be at ease with them. But it  is impossible to be at ease with a person who is alive, spontaneous, because we don’t  know what he will do -- he is unpredictable.

War is absolutely necessary for the development of new technologies we cannot afford living without. And still more important, to grant peace we must go through some inevitable wars.
During war times fighting for a noble cause our lives get real meaning and we have that feeling of belonging to something bigger.
No matter the casualties, the broken hearts, the material losses and the damages to nature, war is a valid tool to make prevail what we think is the right point of view.

The "True-Love" myth says that I will live happily ever after when I find my true love.

One famous psychiatrist said:" nothing has produced more unhappiness than the concept of the soul mate".
In the movies the true love exist because they always end when the guy gets the girl, or vice versa. But they don't describe what happens after the marriage or the live in common.

Are you ready? Let's hear about your story about True-Love, for sure everyone has dream about her/his soul mate. I will write my story too.

Is medicine really improving our health and the quality of our lives? Aren't we becoming lifelong patients, addicted to prescribed drugs and treatments? We give too much power to doctors and simply forget or don't believe we can take care of our health.

The concept is that one can invest in small bottles of very expensive skin creams for the eyes, face and even hands. These bottles are filled with liquids that are advertised as being 'based on solid, scientific, findings and 25 years of proven success, this is the one skincare treatment your skin cannot live without'