I always say that it's mind-blowing how wasteful and inefficient the English teaching system is, with literally millions of kids (and adults) wasting millions o

I always say that it's mind-blowing how wasteful and inefficient the English teaching system is, with literally millions of kids (and adults) wasting millions of houses of precious schooling to study a language that they have no use for, no interest in, no talent with and will forget a lost as soon as they graduate. That said, whenever I meet people with incredible English (and it happens often) I find it amazing how they did that without ever having come into contact with native speakers or even semi-decent language materials. It's a puzzling one.