I've been thinking more like that lately, and came here to say pretty much that. School is an inherently coercive institution. I think it's designed to snuff ou

I've been thinking more like that lately, and came here to say pretty much that. School is an inherently coercive institution. I think it's designed to snuff out independence and creativity and churn out people who blindly follow orders, who will be good corporate peons, Army privates, or something similar for their masters, and outcomes other than that are achieved more in spite of it than because of any attempts at positive change in the system. I don't know exactly what removing it would look like. I tend to think it needs to be less of a top-down organized system. More people doing whatever feels interesting to them at the time and getting as much help and support at it as we can practically provide, whether that's building cars, writing computer programs, reading about history, playing sports, or just screwing around for a while. I think that people inherently want to learn and do stuff, and you'll get much better results just letting them go do what they want to as great of an extent as possible than by ordering them around and restricting their options as much as possible.