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What's the benefit of school and university knowledge if you don't get a decent job...

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It teaches research and thinking skills, which are useful in all aspects of life.

That said, students vary enormously in how well they learn those lessons and, since the mind atrophies if not continually exercised, some lose what they acquired.
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@dakotaggn1991 Not always.

For instance, Muhammad greatly valued knowledge and education and advised that all parents should educate their children. There are fundamentalist sects who, in village areas, won't let their girls attend school once they start their menses - but there is nothing Muhammad says which advises them to so so. For them, it's a cultural choice.