I couldn't agree more with you. I personally will attempt to circumvent "boring, mildly effective education" by homeschooling my children (who are at present st

I couldn't agree more with you. I personally will attempt to circumvent "boring, mildly effective education" by homeschooling my children (who are at present still too young to even speak in words), but homeschooling is an ugly compromise to a stupid problem. A true comprehensive education would take place everywhere in society. Have you ever read Ivan Ilich? I find his style almost too iconoclastic for even my contrarian tastes, and I can't stand his sentence structure. But he makes some very coherent points about exactly what you're talking about. John Gatto is a former teacher who writes in a somewhat less brazen style but keeps a lot of the same opinions. It was actually on HackerNews where I first read "the seven-lesson schoolteacher".