Reminds me of Samuel Bowles' Does education help? . “Being willing to sit in a boring classroom for 12 years, and then sign up for four more years and then sign

Reminds me of Samuel Bowles' Does education help? . “Being willing to sit in a boring classroom for 12 years, and then sign up for four more years and then sign up for three or more years after that—well, that’s a pretty good measure of your willingness to essentially do what you’re told." Now, broken or not which is easier meeting the very low standards of most schools or fighting it tooth and nail? Sure fighting worked for you, but you still have to expended large amounts of energy defending your position. To me this is politics 101, pick your battles. Why attack one of the largest social institutions with a frontal assault?