He also learns to be lazy. Before school began he worked for hours and hours, with no thought of reward, to make sense of the world. But in school he learns that no one does anything they don't have to and he learns to be bored. The ideas above are essentially those of educator and author John Holt, who believes that our educational system misdirects the youth of today. Don't get me wrong.
Education is vital.
And the problem comes with the misconception that learning begins just after the first bell rings and stops after graduation. Education is a lifelong process and by showing kids that the reward for learning is not knowledge but a good report card, there's no wonder that the problem is lack of motivation. I think that the point of education is not to teach what to think but how to think. That way, even if we don't remember, say, the quadratic formula, we still know how to problem solve. To get good grades.