I used to think that School was much nonsense too, so much that I spent 1 year or 2 mostly skipping it. But: >In reality we kind of expect people to learn ever

I used to think that School was much nonsense too, so much that I spent 1 year or 2 mostly skipping it. But: >In reality we kind of expect people to learn everything they need to know outside of school and many things they don't need to know inside school. Yea and isn't school system aware of this? After all, if you learn how-to cook & do your taxes anyway (out of necessity, which is a stronger learning signal nevertheless) why teach it with public funding? The opposite of your complaint is: "Ugh why are school teaching such obvious stuff that you will sooner or later learn anyway? Complete waste of taxpayer money!" I see school as a incomplete(lazy) attempt to teach a broader populace "context" behind everything we have learned as a society so far. But that is too wide, and too deep to cover fully. Hence we cut of at some width and at certain depth, and focus on things you wouldn't learn or even know in a everyday life, the "unknown unknown" so to speak, for the young, energetic, mind. My diastase for school mostly boggle down to how utterly incompetent they were even in this regard, in practice. But maybe you have a more informed view on things that I missed in the short text.