It is important to keep sending people to the university so that basic knowledge is properly thought and people can be trained for more technical jobs (technical in the wide sense of the word). Even if they will learn much more in one year of their technical job than in five years of university courses (as you did), it is important to start with the basics before moving into more modern and complex stuff.

But not everybody can do it and should do it. My opinion is that one should not consider this as the only option for a decent life and emphasize university as the ony way to get educated, as it is currently the case in Europe.