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At the same time Universities worth their salt also get students that are most likely going to be more self staring. Likely good professors will fail students that need more hand holding because it will be waste of their time.
So there is no magic trick to scale up. Besides getting more people to understand school/university is not going to do hand holding. You will get tools to learn how to learn and curated resources all the other things depend on you.
Studying at an university level is about building the skill to aquire new knowledge and methods yourself. Of course you will get guidance by the educators, but with too much guidance you're no longer learning the most essential lesson of them all.
As someone who teaches at an infliction point between theory and practise I can't stress enough how important it is that students go at issues themselves. You can have them understand all the theory, nod along, give the right answers when asked and then give them the real problem and they will look buzzled like they have never seen it. Because yes, they haven't.
That means studying and assuming they will hammer the knowledge into you is silly. You need to be the person that cares about understanding, like anybody who is good at what they are doing is, university level study or not.