Education of life

Why the education means number of degrees in different courses? Actually the education means to Learn throughthe principles and laws. If you become able to compare different situations with different laws or principles of subjects studied then you called as an educatedperson. Basically the ability to differentiate between different things is called education.Life is full of obligations , responsibilities , choices and compromises. Why do we get confused by mixing them? Why do we make our obligations our choices? Why do we make our responsibilities our compromises?
You need to differentiate between them if youneed to be happy.