If the purpose of schooling is to ensure every child can be a potential doctor or lawyer then it has already failed in the past, and will continue failing far i

If the purpose of schooling is to ensure every child can be a potential doctor or lawyer then it has already failed in the past, and will continue failing far into the future. Realistically, I don’t think all kids schooled in Montessori style “learn what you want when you want to learn” will fail at becoming doctors or lawyers if that’s their passion. It may detract from the number of people who make it through law school just because they heard lawyers make a lot of money. But that’s realism, I was responding to the hypothetical of if this method of learning somehow destroys a human beings capacity to ever become a doctor or lawyer. That’s not very practical to say a schooling method will destroy all sense of delayed gratification. Personally, I think developing those life skills is orthogonal to intellectual education in the first place and are more akin to personal character which parents can build in their children without conjoining it with schoolwork.