Education or experience

A close friend of mine recently graduated Bachelors Degree with honors and is still looking for a job. She applies everyday for 5-7 jobs and nothing. Nobody calls her. Everybody wants experience in order to apply for the job. It’s like why is education important? I am asking myself: are we going to school to educate ourselves or are we going just to pass the time and work on the side? Some people can work on the side, but others who live with their parents and who are more concerned about earning that grade, to them, education is most important. Some people can juggle more than school and their life, but others can not. Is this supposed to be a judging contest? A competition of who can handle pressure? Experience comes with experience. If somebody doesn’t give it to us, where do we find it. WHy not just give us a chance?
Are we educatiing ourselves or just passing the time? If experience is so important then why go to school? Why exhaust ourselves when employers look at the experience part and not the education? I really don’t get it. Today it seems that education is just education, and experience or conncetions is what matters. What happened to equality and equal chance for everyone?