Universities successfully teach one how to be happy, self- satisfied and proud for one's education. They do not teach one to reason, investigate, question, and suffer for the truth. Universities train in taking soft options, in suppressing or omitting the important or essential truths, and successfully produce contented sub-humans. For example, evolution is rightly taught, and shows that all things arise out of causes and are not spontaneously created from nothing. However, the fact that evolution points to the non-existence of an independent "self", and the world-shattering consequences of this knowledge in our lives, is completely ignored. Yet this knowledge of self is the most important of all, and is the only thing that can truly be called wisdom.
The only difference between the University graduate and the ordinary animal-creature on the street is that the graduate earns more money. Though what makes the educated person so despicable is that they set themselves up as being accomplished in the realm of the intellect, when their ignorance is probably more complete and secure than anyone's.
The situation is this - the one who is to attend a University for what is a sizeable portion of their life, feels that they must conform and fit-in just to survive the ordeal. Such is our weakness: we so want the money and security education provides, we willingly sell our soul for it.
Be warned, what you do is who you are, and determines what you will become.