That is absolutely not what school is for. It would be really nice if it were, but it is not. School is for creating the next generation of obedient workers -

That is absolutely not what school is for. It would be really nice if it were, but it is not. School is for creating the next generation of obedient workers - the entire modern model of schooling emerged from the Industrial Revolution in order to produce better factory workers. Claims are handed to you at school as truth. Questioning them will get you detention. Ironically, I am homeschooling my daughter because I want her to be a critical thinker who demands hard evidence for anything presented to her - not someone who doesn’t know which century the Second World War happened in, and that it was maybe the Chinese or the Australians who started it, not sure, but they were 100% bad and we were 100% good. Sounds ridiculous, I know, but these are the educational outcomes where we live, where most kids finish school at 13. I could barely pick my jaw up from the floor when witnessing this debate. I had a handful of teachers who encouraged independent thought - the majority however couldn’t explain or justify what they taught except with a meter ruler or a dunce’s cap.