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School is really inefficient and the value of a university degree is baffling CMV

I can learn anything that I want to from the internet. The time for independent learning is now, there is no need to go to class and get spoon fed information like babies. But I still go to class because this bunch of pointless bullshit will hopefully help me keep my standard of life a little better at the expense of my time and money for a few years. I don't attend a prestigious University so I can understand how the perspective may be different in terms of pride, but as with most expensive things the buyer is inevitably going to try hard to see the best in their purchase. The University system seems to be more of a business than a fountain of knowledge and I'm just not really down. 

EDIT: I'm definitely in need of a few days of think time before I get back to any more of your individual comments. I thank all of you for your input and some of you have succeeded in maybe not changing, but at least shifting my views. My attitude towards school is definitely in need of improvement, solely because in my current situation it is clearly not doing me any good. My ideology has changed from school really sucks to the system does a pretty good job but there is still a lot of room for positive change. I'm sure that in the coming years we will begin to see rapid change in how things are being taught in the classroom. 

Many of you talked about the hidden curriculum of college. It's not as if I've never thought about this before, my problem is that I think gaining informational knowledge is the more important objective. Certainly there is no reason that we can't gain soft skills in college and learn a tremendous amount at the same time by changing the ways we do things a bit. 

These are some of the changes that I think would be worth a try:
1. I don't know if this exists but a quiz app would be really effective I think. If I got a push notification that my teacher has prepared my five question geology quiz and that I need to complete that by 5:00 P.M., I will get that quiz done by golly and I can do it anywhere at any point in my day. Not everyone has smart phones I know... but maybe in a few years.

2. I don't think I'm wrong in saying that students do better when they don't have to sit through an hour long lecture. I would much rather have a class 3 times in a day for twenty minutes. I can pay attention for twenty minutes without too much difficulty, an hour is another story.

3. We need to have a bit more choice in our academic mentors are and I believe the internet provides the connectivity to make this possible. Certain people's personalities click with one another for reason's unknown and in unpredictable ways. Having a few experts to choose from in a central website concerned with the area of study interest is much better than having only one professor. 

I have a few more but I'm getting tired now. The hidden curriculum is important and it keeps our professional world running smooth, I'm sure. However, there is room for positive change in everything, including the work environment. Let's WORK towards it. You guys have done a good job in helping me change my dissatisfaction with the system into energy that I will do my best to devote towards change. It may be too late for me to see the great fruits of what the educational tree can produce but it's not to late for your kids.
gpt
"The internet" is not a replacement for formal education. It is a huge fallacy. People think because they looked something up on the internet, they've become an expert in that field and in no way is this the case in any subject. University isn't made to teach you regurgitated facts, this is only a small part of the university learning experience. You are taught from formally structured classes how to interact in a professional environment with an authority figure (your professor). How to meet deadlines and time manage efficiently. How to think in terms of developing strong thesis and arguments. How to analyze. etc.
 
The value of the university degree isn't the information and facts that you can spew out, it's about developing skills that will benefit you in the competitive career driven world.