Educating yourself for the man

Anyone else out there find these complaints from corporate interests about how college graduates are unprepared to do what employers want them to do offensive and irrelevant? Why is the education of our students about preparing them to be corporate slaves? What about developing the individual, the spirit, expanding the mind, preparing people to be future leaders, letting them discover their own directions and souls? How further backwards towards the days when only the highest social and economic classes were properly educated are we going to go? And the corollary question of how much are average Americans willing to tolerate in terms of having their lives be used as cogs in a machine?