People often scoff at education citing how 'life has taught me this and that, screw your degrees' - that's all good and all but is there something you did gain from school?

there are many young people out there looking for inspiration from us older people who went to college, who went to grad school, who did gain from an education and obviously life will always be life and will teach you lessons and so will school, though…even if we don’t remember Calc II or physics or whatever…it’s made me who I am, someone able to be critical, someone functional, someone proud of what she does for a career..