> a university teaches you how to think, critically and deeply, and how to learn. You'd have to have lived a pretty sheltered life to not have picked up those

> a university teaches you how to think, critically and deeply, and how to learn. You'd have to have lived a pretty sheltered life to not have picked up those things long before reaching the typical age of attending university. University's role is to give you a place to apply those qualities to subjects where you otherwise wouldn't have access to the necessary resources to fulfill your interest in the subject, like where you need equipment that costs many figures beyond what a personal budget could ever dream of. Which is also where the job skill conflation comes from as those same resources are often used to fulfil job training, like where one needs to learn how a certain costly machine works before messing with the real thing in industry.