Transition from school to College/University education

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In schools, you tend to be educated in a manner that is teacher centered: you listen to the teacher, and you remember the facts that you have been told. You are basically taught in a tightly enclosed environment where what you learn is determined by a Government developed system. Imagination, creativity and original thought are chucked out the window in favour of perscribed learning, fixed concentration and non-critical analysis of the information provided. That is the life of a schoolchild. College and University meanwhile work on a student centered approach, where it's the student's responsibility to learn the material: it is not the responsibility of the teacher. The teacher or tutor in this instance simply provide the tools: the student provides everything else. If you are the one of many people who left school and went straight into college and then University, how did you cope with the shift in education from teacher centered to student centered?