The sad thing is that many people quit reading books once they finish formal education. They quit growing. The best thing to learn early on in school is the ability to read and comprehend. If a person can master reading, education becomes a lifelong pursuit. However, all the book learning is useless if it isn’t applied to building life experiences.
I love the educational setting; I love being inside the classroom and having intelligent discussions about readings...however, from my experience, that rarely happened INSIDE a college classroom. It was the smaller, study groups that met independent of class, without a teacher, that, imho, provided me with more education/information than the majority of my classes.