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You should go to college to learn, but there's no question that going to a different place and meeting people who think differently and come from different backgrounds is very valuable.
I grew up in a pretty blue-collar town, and in college I was exposed to people who came from much different backgrounds and thus thought a lot differently than I did. I studied with them, lived with them, worked with them, absorbed their ideas and gave them some of mine back.
Of course I went there to learn something that would earn me a living, and I did. But the college experiences themselves were valuable, too.
I have to laugh about one thing: all you guys kvetching about the pampered people who go to college just because they can't think of anything better to do. Used to be a lot worse, back when community college was essentially free (here in CA) and state university cost a big $100 a semester tuition (it wasn't even called tuition, it was a "fee."). People who had no interest in school would go to community college or the local state university just so their parents wouldn't pressure them about getting a job. Aand of course, they got to keep living at home.
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