Don't ask it to teach you how to live the Christian life and don't ask it to teach you how to pastor a church. With that expectation in place, I really liked seminary. It great me a great foundation of Bible study, for which I am grateful. It would be nice to have a clear-cut philosophy of ministry as well, but perhaps that is asking to much. In my case there were a number of courses that could have been eliminated without harm.
Seminaries make nice objects to blame for the problem.
It is a whole lot easier than taking responsibility ourselves. Leave plenty of time for this. This is what it is all about. And like your pastor, I need to feed my kids. I dream of providing an ever growing library of resources aimed at helping groups double every two years or less.