For individuals with drive and motivation to learn, the modern education system (especially university) does nothing but destroy motivation and waste years of your life. Every second spent not studying for the specific exam related content is a mark against the future value of your degree, thus it disincentives students from reading the entire content of a textbook, and instead only focusing on the pages which will be tested. Excessive time must be spent perfecting your ability to quickly solve specific and realistically unimportant problems lest you accidentally write +1 instead of -1 on an exam and face the """warranted""" punishment towards your grade for doing so.