We teach our children to look alive there, to join by words and activities the life of human culture on the planet's crust. The flow of information is unidirectional. The oft-cited idea of a factory comes to mind. Over the years our factories have been declared to be in a state of crisis.
Students graduate without needed skills.
Others slip out of side exits, resisting a process that no longer seems relevant or expedient. For many students, schooling seems like a vestigial rite left over from 1950s TV sitcoms. Something to be endured and forgotten. The dilemmas in education have been described in monetary, moral, social, and even spiritual terms. There are as many proposed solutions as there are problems, maybe more.