I agree that people need experience to become good at anything, but I actually see this as a sort of shortcoming which is attributable to education. i.e. the system will give you the building blocks of success without context and you can fumble around with them once you enter the workforce - learn on the job.

I believe that we should be focusing much more on pragmatic application of knowledge through apprenticeship in the later years of school.

The goal being to alleviate the feeling that you need to immediately train someone who just got done with 4+ years of training.