I've always enjoyed learning, but I despised school and most college courses. Thankfully I'm an autodidact and don't need the school system to learn or else I'm

I've always enjoyed learning, but I despised school and most college courses. Thankfully I'm an autodidact and don't need the school system to learn or else I'm afraid I wouldn't know much of anything. The public school system is in shambles and can barely be counted on to teach the most fundamental of curriculum let alone more advanced courses that should function as the foundation of future college learning. The university system in contrast is less interested in teaching any particular thing than it is in wringing every last cent of tuition out of each student before they either drop out, flunk out, or somehow manage to navigate the various flaming hoops and traps the university's have erected to stand between students and their eventual departure from them. Nominally the various classes are supposed to provide an opportunity to learn, but in practice they're little more than a set of speed-bumps designed to prolong the amount of time a given student spends at the university. To that end it's really in the best interest of the university to do as little actual teaching they can as opposed to as much testing as possible, and it's largely reflected in the curriculum of many professors. Once you've cleared the bar of the bachelors however things change somewhat. With most students leaving after attaining a bachelors (or a masters in the case of business students, and a PhD in the case of medical students), those left are destined to become faculty (or at least attempt to become faculty) and to take part in the other major fundraising activity in the university system, the attaining of grants. At this point the emphasis shifts from delaying attainment of your degree to press-ganging you into becoming a cog in the grant generating departments. In the post-grad track you're only as good to the university as the grant dollars you're helping to bring in. Ultimately the problem boils down to the shift in emphasis of universities from places of higher learning, to businesses geared around extracting maximum profit from each individual customer in exchange for a largely meaningless paper that HR departments around the country still have a fetishistic devotion to.