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I agree that sometimes the content taught doesn't have direct application to work... in my case, I write a fair number of reports which don't really require prior knowledge of rivers/acids/electromagnetism/Shakespeare/etc. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
However, I also agree with Avatar that it's mainly a process to develop one's analytical skills. After we memorise the "facts", we're slowly drawn to derive new "facts" (eg in Maths, we'd have to use a theorem to derive another). This helps us to adopt more rigour as we go about solving problems in working life.
I guess you could look at it from the point that all this knowledge is meant to give us a broad idea of what the various fields have to offer, so that we have a better idea of what area we'd like to dabble further in when we start working.
Anyway, that's just how I see it [img]smile.gif[/img]
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