Counterexample: Started going to bed at a good time in college, gave me a reason to skip going out, and my brain performance unlocked into better focus, learning, and memory. Bonus was the classes were smaller.
- let's say it takes 30min from your home to the university
- let's say it takes you 15min to get ready (including shower)
- let's say it takes you 30min to have breakfast (10min preparation + 20min eating)
That means you need to leave home at least at 6:45. To sleep at least 8.5h, you'll need to go to bed at at least 10:15pm. I don't know you, but when I was younger, at 10:15pm I was feeling full of energy and couldnt go to sleep just like that.
Good luck find a university student with that type of sleep hygiene. I was the most sleep vigilante of my group and almost never slept more than 8 hours. 7 was my minimum, anything less led to migraines.
If your circadian rhythm is set to sleep at 2am, an 8am class is going to be hell no matter what you do.
It's a great and amazing skill.
I'm not sure it is worth the learning experience.
You have a fair amount of flexibility as a student. I had a roommate who napped from 4-4:30 every day.
This is the equivalent of modern fat americans claiming their body just structurally don't work with veggies.
I will assert - the sun rises at 6-8am, and our society should align with that. It also sets at 5-8pm. We should also align with that. There will be outliers, and pleasing everyone is not an option. But we need to take in account the natural cycles of our environment. As that is the one thing we certainly cannot influence.
Telling them to follow the sun will be about as successful as telling an actual owl that it's sleeping at the winyg time and needs to hunt during the day like the rest of the birds.
Human brains, lifespans and experiences are mind bogglingly more sophisticated than the next animal on the list. There is nothing in the animal kingdom remotely as complex as our civilization on this planet, why would you generalise like this?