"College and university were never supposed to be about job training. They were supposed to teach one how to learn so you could become a lifelong learner"

I see little benefit in discussing how things should be instead of what they are. There are clearly forces that pivoted universities towards what they are today, telling people what university should be isn't gonna fix anything.

More importantly, who decided university is the only place you could learn this, or that you could not become a life long learner long before going to university?

It seems that institutional education is precisely what gives people the impression that there is such a thing as "stop learning" aka graduation.