Degree is beauty to the eyes of the degree holder...

With everyone in the country busy running behind engineering or management degrees I often wonder whats the purpose behind doing all these. I feel that education is a tool and as with any other tool its effectiveness is decided by the person using it. Not many people really seem to realise this. People think that a degree is an end product. If someone passes out of an engineering college , people think they can perform miracles , which is never the case. Our Universities have become centers for churning out mediocre and uninspired engineers who end up almost contributing nothing to engineering or the society. Iam not blaming the system. The system has designed with the viewpoint of giving equal opportunities to all the people , which as citizens of a democratic nation we must ensure. The universities are a meant to be wonderful places where ideas from young people along with expertise from older people make use of the latest technologies and funding available in their facilities to contribute to the betterment of mankind or the better working of the industries. The Universities have the expertise, money and the technology(to some extent) what is missing here is the enthusiasm from the side of the people who are involved in the learning process. In our country engineering and management degrees have become a prestige symbol. In this mad rat race to obtain a degree people often forget that these must be done with the aim of achieving something (apart from earning lots of money obviously). It has turned out that most people try to solve an equation without actually defining the equation. Naturally most people are lost and they don't have any idea about what they are doing. The society must encourage people to do some introspection in order to find his/her true interests. Ultimately without passion there is no point in doing anything.Lets just forget the idea of contributing to the society and mankind. I wondered how these people will feel like about going to a job, which they are not interested in, for the rest of their lives. Will all the money in the world be able to compensate their frustration? I wonder why people don't sit down to think about this. Probably people do think about it and are scared to go against established norms. Ultimately when i keep wondering about this over and over again the only conclusion i get to is that such degrees are beauty to the eyes and purse of the degree holder and not to his heart.