IntroductionThe main focus of the essay is the meaning of an education. It is argued that a true education consists of more than just training in the specifics of your chosen field. He cites lateral thinking and communication skills as valuable life skills that should be learned. It then proceeds to examine the need for these skills in the real world and the need for these skills to be taught at the university level. It begins by looking at the general case of all students coming to university for the first time and eventually gets to the particular needs of computer science students and others in more practical disciplines. It examines the causes that made this course relevant, mentioning why these skills have not yet been learned and why at university level they are not yet taught implicitly by university life. Show how and why the college believes that teaching these skills is a necessary part of a college education. What is the nature of a college education? Are we here to graduate with honors, get jobs in our chosen field, and continue to think like computer scientists, lawyers, doctors, physicists, or historians? Or as many argue, are we here to learn about the real world without being exposed to its harsher realities? Computers and Society is a course that annoys many students; they find it irrelevant and would rather sit in the light of a monitor than listen to the speaker. Why then is such a course taught in most graduate-level computer science courses? Some seem to believe that we need more education. Why teach a computer scientist to think and speak? First of all, the question of education. How to define it? Or is it a broad concept where… in the middle of the paper… you read but you are unable to distinguish what is worth reading,” as GM Trevelyan put it. As education is fast becoming a matter of churning out graduates competent in their fields with good job prospects and little else, the form is relevant Bibliography: [TCD Students' Union] University Record, Issue One, Volume Two http://www.tcd.ie/Student/Union/News/. news.htm[ Robert W. Lawler] Learning and Computing: A Work in Processhttp://datacase.mdn.com/LC.html[Jake Werner] Thoughts on Educationhttp://pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/~ jww990/essays.html[ Mikhail Bakunin] Bakunin on Education (essay 1 and essay 2) http://spunk.etext.org/texts/writers/bakunin/[Penny McCall Howard] The Dalhousie Faculty Strike: A extraordinarily liberating education http://www.tao. ca/~dasn/issue2/dal.html Education Quotes http://rhf.bradley.edu/~cmacas/edu.htm