"When you listen to children talk about school you easily discover what they are thinking about in school:
who likes them, who is being mean to them, how to improve their social ranking,
how to get the teacher to treat them well and give them good grades.
Schools are structured today in much the same way as they have been for hundreds of years.
And for hundreds of years philosophers and others have pointed out that school is really a bad idea:
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years,
and come out at last with a belly full of words and do not know a thing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing
that is worth knowing can be taught. — Oscar Wilde
Whence it comes to pass, that for not having chosen the right course,
we often take very great pains, and consume a good part of our time
in training up children to things, for which, by their natural constitution,
they are totally unfit. — Montaigne", 'what is your dangerous idea', edge.org