Is education about memorizing knowledge to get high grades or about actually learning #knowledge?

I mean, why do students meet in a crowded lecture hall to listen to a bored, frustrated professor giving frontal lectures when they could acquire the knowledge much better on the Internet in small learning groups? Isn't self-study of one's own initiative the best form of learning knowledge?

Or is it ultimately just a matter of having economically exploitable skills drilled into them for capitalism?

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