Empowerment of school- What is School For?

Few people call me obtuse but I have spent 15 years in school and still, I don't know, What is a school for? Schools and colleges are excellent in teaching us many subjects which holds great value in life, I don't deny it but these never teach us the skills which are necessary in succeeding and thriving in the real world. When I finished school I didn't know how to handle money, socializing, negotiations, self-defense, handling failures, do taxes own my own or apply for a loan. But not everything that’s worth knowing is chalked up on blackboards. I graduated my school with a good score but what did I have now? A fancy laminated degree for putting on the wall of my room and watch it daily while seating at home and thinking of changing the world, which I don't know.

Luckily school taught us many useful things like finding the value of "X", proving the LHS = RHS, an atom is the basic unit of life, mitochondria is a powerhouse of a cell and many more, How can I forget Pythagoras theorem, which helped me a lot to pass my exams. But luckily schools forgot to teach me Why and Where to use these and truthfully all the stuff they taught us I forgot.

This is the story of every student. Schools are not the environment for learning because whenever any stuff was taught in class, the only question we had in our mind was that: is this concept going to come in our exam? Schools should focus on learning instead of mugging and not making it a game of grades.