@Gnomeshatecheese @MandyJane One of the things I loved about college was the library. It was pre-internet and there were thousands of books that opened my mind to new ideas. I couldn't stop reading around subjects as links, references etc opened up. One article would lead to a book, whose author led me to another author and so on.
I was often asked by other students in my year why I had read something not on the reading list if I didn't have to.
That was a teacher training college in the 1980s.