Studying the humanities once allowed students to learn what it meant to be a sentient human being. A mature person who could think for himself. Some even had experiences with the sublime, or the arts.
The sciences give us the people who help us heal, travel, communicate. College educated Nimrods have assisted many of us in doing the things we often take for granted.
And for some, of course, college was a waste, a “four year loaf on the old man’s dough.”
Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg all left college without graduating. The first two left their Freshman year. They later said that college was a waste of their fathers money and maybe more dear, their own time.