Does achieving a degree means that you have become a civilized and educated human being? I don't think so. Getting knowledge won't make you an educated person. The most common example of illiteracy by educated people is when there is littering iin educational institutes and illiterate people are hired to clean the mess. cramming your course books won't bring wisdom, it will only bring knowledge without enlightenment.
In the current world earning a degree is useless and of no value when you don't make use of it and get a job. Right now we go to school with the sole purpose of getting jobs in the near future.