I find your lack of cynicism disturbing. The system works as designed. The system is designed to teach obedience and conformity. In schooling, academics are a means to an end rather than an end in themselves. The system takes real boys and girls and turns them into puppets ready to be strung up by any corporation, institution, or movement that can find a use for them.
I wonder how the outcome of education will change with recorded classes in YouTube or things like Coursera, brilliant, Khan Academy in the long term. Self learning with the pandemic, stoped being optional for most children.<p>One of the main bottlenecks I've seen in classrooms, it's teachers to finding a balance between students who understand the lecture, and those to shy too say they didn't get anything at all.<p>The possibility of pause and repeat a lesson, I feel it's underestimated