What I think he means is they can't teach you how to have a vision for film in school. In terms of technical stuff to learn, those are the thing one must absolutely know in order to be competent. The ability to illustrate/create a story on film can't be taught.
And I agree... yet I'm going to...
Ahoy there mates,
As I'm sure you all can tell from my join date, I'm new here... so as a way to deem myself 'worthy' to the Indietalk forums God I figured I should at least post one of my works. A comedy about a little boy and his quirky adventure :P
With that said, here it is...