It sucks until it is gone. It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all. My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so kept me out of school.
Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life. I lived there for more than two years. I counted the days and the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home from this hateful servitude. For years I asked the local school board and superintendent to let me teach a curriculum that doesn't hurt kids, but they had other fish to fry. If you hear of a job where I don't have to hurt kids to make a living, let me know.