School teaches you how to navigate a bureaucracy. It is not the real world.

Indeed.

BACK TO SCHOOL THOUGHTS from Walter Russell Mead. “Life in school is life in bureaucracy. You follow the rules, do what you are told, and rewards follow. The real world was never very much like that, but the parts of the real world that look most like school (like for example law firms, universities and government and private sector bureaucracies) have their heads on the chopping block.”