I tried to get it across but perhaps the point didn't land – I'm not talking about any given classroom or the practical aspects of it. Curriculums have all sort

I tried to get it across but perhaps the point didn't land – I'm not talking about any given classroom or the practical aspects of it. Curriculums have all sorts of issues, teaching is increasingly a job of meeting quotas, school funding is problematic all over the world, and examination sucks. However, we're still choosing as a society to send kids to school. The fact that school systems suck in so much of the world doesn't stop it from being the right idea in theory, and if you ask almost anyone on the street "should kids learn to read" or "should kids be taught about their history" you'll almost unanimously get answers of absolutely. (We can debate what "their history" means, but most people agree something should be taught, they just disagree on what)