No kids here (besides the neighbors kids) thankfully, but I don't need them to remember how much I hated school and university. They were all about knowledge wi

No kids here (besides the neighbors kids) thankfully, but I don't need them to remember how much I hated school and university. They were all about knowledge with no understanding. The entire goal of school is not to "prepare you for life" but to fit you into a box, any box, with a bow for your employer. Nobody that I applied to ever asked me about my degree or university experience; it was but a qualifier on the CV. As the author said, probably the only thing my peers remembered positively from their school days was their social circles. That's probably the biggest reason school was bearable. Hopefully the pandemic will change things, but its doubtful. There are universities that still, after a whole year of covid, haven't figured out remote teaching. They can't use or agree upon software, don't know how to do the exams, can't organize schedules and keep reverting to proctoring solutions that invade privacy. How can institutions, that are supposed to prepare us for the future, be so backwards?