I liked this post named It's the ability to learn tools, not the tools themselves, by Mark Shuttleworth.
The truth is that we constantly acquire and discard sets of tools. So we should not be fixated on one specific set of tools for all of life. Society, technology and the times change so fast that any fact, process or algorithm we learn at school is by definition not going to be useful for any length of time.
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