Taking uni courses later in life, it's because the educated are taught in a very long, boring, and ineffective manner. They believe that's how good education happens because that's what the "experts" do. Turns out that one Khan Academy video is a better instructor than an hour with the math professor here. Students show up just to complete the homework, then forget it, because it's not relevant. Then the uni's pile on wholey unnecessary classes so they can claim to be "elite" and "well rounded", which drains the knowledge relevant to your work even further.

Effective education will happen once we remove federal funding from universities. No more administrative cruft, no more extra general classes to pad coffers, no more relying on tenure to excuse poor quality education.