ABSTRACT
Higher education is supposed to change you, to help you to see with ‘new eyes’ and equip you for your life ahead. But whether it does, and how much, depends on some critical factors. You can harbour self-limiting beliefs about yourself and what learning is. You can skim over learning like skating on ice, treating education as an uncomplicated handing-down of knowledge from accepted authorities. Alternatively, you can challenge self-limiting beliefs and develop enabling ones. You can come to understand knowledge as open to question, to be interpreted and made your own. Through self-awareness and reflection you can master learning how to learn. You can equip yourself for independent lifelong learning. Your can change your view of yourself and the world. Then you are not the same person you were.
