There are close similarities between programming of computers and programming of humans. Much like installation of software for a computer, when humans go to school they are being "programmed". They are learning a set of instructions. In the case of a college student enrolled in a major. This student will take courses geared toward the major, he/she will learn how to process information and perform tasks related to the subject he/she is studying.
However the differences is that a human may have conscious or subconscious conflict with what they are learning ("program"). For example a student may elect to study business as a major, but prefers to be an artist, thus ignoring the teaching of business related course. Verses computers will take in the software or programs it is told and not change its mind. Humans have the ability to reject what they are told.
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'Humans have the ability to reject what they are told.'
That's a really important point, I think, and it is crucial to what we think is distinctly human. We seem to have a flexbility, even a reflexivity, which makes us able to do this, and which is very hard (perhaps impossible) for computers to replicate.
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