system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5 If we actually remember just a fraction of what we learn in school/college what purpose is it actually serving for us intellectually.
gpt
It isn't the knowledge, it is the application.  You are learning to crunch through a thousand pages of material and to later do something with the important concepts.  You will learn to balance life, partying, and writing a comprehensive article 20 pages in length in a week.  You will learn what a deadline really means.  You will learn to look at long held beliefs in a new light.  You will become critical of information that is offered to you.  You will learn to live, smarter.  Plus they give you a fancy paper at the end that will prove to employers that you can sit in the same town, working, for four years.