It depends on your values I suppose but as someone who teaches a course that many take for general education requirements I'd say that the majority enter my cou

It depends on your values I suppose but as someone who teaches a course that many take for general education requirements I'd say that the majority enter my course not knowing basic things about the world, like that American Sign Language is a language and not just people making gestures at one another. They also believe weird things they learned off the Internet, like "Eskimos" having 1000 words for snow or some tribe having no concept of time because they don't have a past tense. That is just the tip of the iceberg. Students in their early 20s often haven't even developed the general bullshit detecting skills to question a lot of this stuff. If they don't learn these skills somewhere they may never do so. I know it sounds kind of harsh but it is possible to get a degree in engineering or English literature and still be super stupid outside of a narrow field. I think that is bad for society. It creates a lot of problems when people don't get educated in the basics. It makes them poorer critical thinkers. It is easier to take advantage of them and they may be part of something hurtful or destructive without understanding why it is a bad thing. A university that sends out the equivalent of flat earthers and anti-vaxxers in droves is worthless. Who cares if people are getting jobs right out of college if they may actively be working against the public good in the long run due to ignorance?