What's the Point of a College Education?

What is the point of a college education? That's something that many people think about, especially where college is so expensive and the job market is so tight. Some would say, you go to college for the knowledge; some would say,you go for ways of thinking. Ariba: I would like to think that studying mathematics rigorously is a path to not happy life in the sense of being able to make complicated decisions with ease.