Reply #5: The idea that college is all about parties [View All]

[Maple]

and the drugs/sex/alcohol that go with it is part and parcel of the 'never grow up' syndrome.

Everybody wanting to be Peter Pan. Forever a child.

So they act in college, the same way they do when the teacher is out of the room in the lower levels. Like kids.

Like you'd expect kids to act when mommy isn't looking.

They don't see it as the end of childhood, and the beginning of adult life...which contrary to popular belief these days does not involve drunken parties....it means those old-fashioned things like taking responsibility, developing the ability to think for oneself, and being concerned with the future.

Your character is what you are when no one is looking.

And in the end...character always shows thru. Bush's does.