Both views can still coexist. Parents can view higher education as a social badge, and the students as something they have to go through, yet get valuable and

Both views can still coexist. Parents can view higher education as a social badge, and the students as something they have to go through, yet get valuable and life changing insights as they go through the courses. Anecdotally the courses that were the most interesting and left an impression on me where auxiliary units we could choose from to fill a unit quota to graduate. The very low expectations kinda helped choose courses that didn't sound super useful, only to realize afterwards why they mattered. I thought it was random luck, but looking at how the graduation system is set and the way the teachers organized these courses, it was obvious after the fact that the university put a lot of effort into getting students to touch subjects they didn't understand as important.