The point is to turn out well-rounded individuals. The workplace requires those who can work well with others, who have social and leadership skills as well as “book smarts.”
Sometimes the guy who graduates at the top of his class won’t be the most successful in the real world.
A former colleague was absolutely genius-level (as were his kids and his wife), way above my level, but not what you would call well-rounded. A subsequent employer had to tell him of the necessity to bathe more frequently -- but this guy has produced some major advances in medical imaging technology that some readers of this post might have suffered without... the guy's a techie, doesn't need or want "leadership skills" and works pretty well in any environment that doesn't impose too many "social skills" upon him. Liberal in bent he'll accept most of the PC stuff being forced down, but hit him with something he won't agree with, you'll hit a stone wall.
If I were an engineering manager I'd hire him again in a flash. He was a "study, study, study" type in school and remains such today.
Straight out of Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged."
Well done.