IntroductionThe essay mainly focuses on the meaning of an education. It is said that true education is not limited to simple training in the specifics of the chosen field. He cites lateral thinking and communication skills as useful life skills that should be learned. It then examines the need for these skills in the real world and the need to teach them at the university level. It begins by examining the general case of all students arriving at college for the first time and finally addresses 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 already been acquired and why, at the university level, they are not yet taught implicitly by college life. It shows how and why the college considers teaching these skills to be a necessary part of a university education. What is the nature of a university education? Are we here to graduate with honors, get a job in our chosen field, and continue to think like computer scientists, lawyers, doctors, physicists, or historians? Or, as many would say, are we here to learn a little about the real world without being exposed to its harsher realities? Computers and Society is a course that annoys many students; they feel it doesn't matter and would rather sit in the glow of a monitor than listen to the speaker. Why then is a similar course taught in most college-level computer science courses? Someone seems to believe that we need broader education. Why teach a computer scientist to think and speak? First the question of education. How can we define it? Either it's a broad concept that one...reads in the middle of an article, but is unable to distinguish what is worth reading,” as GM Trevelyan said. Since education is fast becoming about producing competent graduates in their fields with good job prospects and nothing else, the module is relevant.Bibliography:[TCD Students' Union] University Record, Issue One, Volume Twohttp://www.tcd.ie/Student/Union/News/news.htm[ Robert W. Lawler] Learning and computing: a work in progresshttp://datacase.mdn.com/LC.html[ Jake Werner] Reflections 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 Teachers' Strike: A Surprisingly Liberating Educationhttp://www.tao ca/~dasn/issue2/dal.htmlQuotes on Educationhttp://rhf.bradley. .edu/~cmacas/edu.htm