The university itself is a massive infantilization, evolved primarily to financially exploit young adults.

Does anybody really think that smart young adults could not maximize their potential out in the real world earning actual money, learning on the go.

The university rips young people out of reality for four more years to pamper them like babies and deprive them of reality in the name of "education"; as if listening to lectures from middle aged adults has some sort of magical revelatory power that living life does not.