In my country, most of the high school students enter the university although the tuition is very expensive. Some people believe that attending a university is important to getting a good job. However, in my opinion, university is a place where people can improve their academic level not an intermediate stage in the process/a part of the process a middle process for joining a good company.
The first reason is that the stage as a university student is the only period to study something deeply in our life. We have studied about a wide spectrum of study subjects from elementary to high school student. And through the experience of these times, we selected a the best subject to study at the university. Usually we learn about that field of study for 4 years. Through all period of our life, we would never spend our time again solely on studying. there would be a no time spending only for studying. After graduating university, we have to work and work continuously until we become an old man. At elder stage we are able to have a lot of leisure time. But at that time, if we want to learn new knowledge it would be a big challenge because our brain would become also old. For example, my grandfather regrets that he didn’t study hard when he was a university student. He thought that the years in university stage is was the time for experiencing new culture and he spent whole his time to enjoy and play. Now he always says to me that studying hard, now I want to study but it’s impossible for to me since I’m old man and it’s hard to remember something new. Now he always says that he wants to study but it is impossible for him since he's an old man and it's hard to remember something new.
On top of that, raising the academic level is very pleasing. it is very happy to enhance academic level. People often feel a proud of oneself whenever they achieve something through their continuous and enthusiastic effort. And the extend of the pride becomes proud is bigger and bigger as the matter is gets harder. Of course learning and absorbing knowledge are making a new knowledge to mine is too hard process. Therefore the pleasure of study is bigger in proportion to the difficulty. To take a personal experience, I’ve studied about a geology for 2 years. In this field of study, it includes many parts of study are included such as physics, chemistry, and optics and so on. So at first time studying geology seemed like a big barrier of my life and I was frustrated for many times. However after passing sort of time some time later/as time passed by I can could see myself who grow up as a real scholar. (얼마간의 시간 후에 after passing sort of time 맞나요?)
In short, I strongly believe that attending a university is for increasing knowleadge not for just job. This is because it’s a precious stage of our life to study something deeply, and as learning more and more we can experience big pleasure of study. I want many university students to spend their university time to increase their academic level rather than just prepare to get a good job.