Tutorials

I honestly don't understand the meaning of tutorials in school. I thought we were paying the teachers/instructors/professors to teach us not now to directions from a text? I personally am one of those people who don't learn anything from a tutorial. I learn by someone teaching me, showing me a couple of times how to do it, explaining it and myself practicing. Tutorials to me are just instructions in a book as if you were assembling something, you don't quite know how to do it nor understand the instructions you just follow them. And as for me, I don't comprehend things well, I have to be shown a few times some more than others then I have to practice more than once. I can't just read something and pick up on it; my mind unfortunately doesn't work that way. I just wish they would leave tutorials for guides of self teaching/studying and leave the classroom teaching/instruction to the teachers!