While it's not difficult to understand your bitterness it's clear you've missed a few things. Going off to some school is not preparation for life.
A real education involves teaching humility in our assessment of ourselves and gratitude for the sacrifices of others on our behalf, closely related to that is respect for those who gone before us and what they have produced.
Having to work for what we have teaches appreciation for its true cost. Finally, teaching your children that there is a God that looks on and holds us responsible for our actions.
Humility, respect, gratitude, reverence for the sacred....teach your children these things and they'll be educated for life and all else will follow. Fail and you will most certainly be bitterly disappointed.
AMEN!!!! As I have said a million times before... it BEGINS in the HOME before that child steps its feet out the door for the first time to Kindergarten. AMEN.