Why do people in society treat college students like children?

Society's attitude towards people is only to filter, not to nurture. How you are as a person, no one tells you face-to-face, no one criticizes you directly, no one tells you what to do to improve. There is no sense of responsibility like "I will be responsible for making you better." If you can do it, then do it; if you can't, then forget it. If you are capable, they will use you; if not, they will quietly give up on you, stay away from you, and let you fend for yourself.
Society only cares about the results, only whether you can accomplish things, whether you have the skills to produce results. If you do, it’s like a polished finished product, and many want to collaborate; if not, it’s not a finished product, and no one approaches you proactively. You can't immediately deliver what is wanted, nor can you grow quickly to adapt to the environment, so in the end, you are ignored and very lonely.
Society is indifferent to those who still need to grow. Your growth is something you are responsible for before entering society; at that time, only the people around you might show a sense of responsibility to help you succeed. After entering society, regardless of how much you have achieved, no one wants to help you do anything; what you are is what you are. You might think you still need external help to become a complete person, but in others’ eyes, your current incompleteness is already a kind of completeness.
Incomplete people can still live, but they can only deal with similar people and things for their entire lives. This is the mystery of social stratification: no one tells you that you can still move forward or become better; society only matches you with exactly what suits you—indifference, loneliness, poverty, isolation, and scarcity. No one questions why you can only get these; they just keep matching without caring about your inner thoughts.
After entering society, progress depends on yourself. Many like to say that your fate is sealed before entering society, which is ridiculous. The you from ten years ago was naive and behind the times, hard to understand, but it was exactly this version of you that made all the decisions for life ten years ago. Responsibility for the past lies with you; responsibility for the future also only lies with you.
Before awakening, you think everything has nothing to do with you, and you can only leave it to fate and go with the flow. After awakening, you realize nothing is completely unrelated; everything is connected to you. Every matter is a test, a probe, and a trial for growth.
Habitually ignoring oneself and neglecting non-coercive conflicts lead to the loss of many opportunities for progress, and only through major life events can one gain enlightenment. The small details of an ordinary life can be avoided and solved through escape, but we give up on escaping, which results in living many years without learning anything.
The opportunity for progress has always been right in front of you, in the difficult things you face now. You can always use these things to start progressing. Society will not make demands on anyone; it only issues notifications and commands. We can only demand more of ourselves, fill in the gaps of our progress, and gradually live ourselves into a complete person.
The root of human suffering is only one thing: the mismatch between thoughts and actions. Either constantly correct your thoughts or constantly correct your actions.