Profiteering.

Schools don't have your best interest at heart. It's simply contradictory to their benefit. This is why they keep moving the goal posts decade after decade and like the morons that most of our populous are: We keep falling for it. First by attaining High School diplomas that became invaluable because of their inflation among the population, then the College degrees that became invaluable because of the logical emphasis placed on them when the High School diplomas became irrelevant.

Knowledge is power and if they provided you with actual knowledge then there would be no reason for their existence as a continuing entity. And by extension, no more power for those already with it.

From the cradle, the masses are conditioned to believe that contrary to the realities of the real world where it's graduates struggle as much as the next guy, that college is the only way to success but no one ever questions the people selling them that unheard-of bridge: The educational system. The same people who profit from it. It's all a joke.