We're talking about two very different things. Regardless of how schools teach, what they do is they teach skills. Skills are about how to do something in a ce

We're talking about two very different things. Regardless of how schools teach, what they do is they teach skills. Skills are about how to do something in a certain way (including how to think about topics), and hence you have right or wrong answers that can be graded. Whereas work is goal oriented, it is about solving a problem as opposed to how to solve a problem in a particular way. Hence, there are solutions which may be great practically, but doesn't teach you any useful skill. There are a lot of jobs that don't require any real problem solving. In fact, I would argue that's the majority of jobs. Sometimes we need to be taught skills, and sometimes we need to be challenged with open-ended problems.