I agree. The University provides the opportunity to do and experience all sorts of things; at my own school I got to work with/talk to/learn from many of the smartest people I have ever met and learned (outside of my engineering curriculum) everything from Cray YMP era super-computing to an class in bargaining and negotiating (which has probably helped me at least a little almost every day since) to how to pan for gold and climb mountains. But it's up to the individual to take advantage of it; if all you do is go to the required classes until you graduate, you're probably missing out the best parts.
For me issue is that people want to be taught like in the story of Asimov they want some magic upload to the brain and no effort.
Where in reality university can only go so far with making knowledge available and fun… Because hard things will be hard regardless.