This article seems written from someone in their own kind of bubble. Here are the first 5 things in a list of supposedly irrelevant things school teaches:<p>> Values and mindsets taught by the school system:<p>> 1. Conform to top-down structures and one-size-fits-all curricula<p>> 2. Obey the authority figure<p>> 3. Ask permission for anything you’re not explicitly told to do<p>> 4. Truth comes from authority, defiance will be punished<p>> 5. Success comes from pleasing authority figures<p>Far from being "the exact opposite of what every employer in the 21st century is looking for", these are <i>exactly</i> what many employers want from <i>most</i> of their employees. Even in supposedly high-tech companies, insufficient deference to authority - even if technically correct - is punished[1].<p>In this sense, school actually does a remarkably good job of introducing students to the kind of environments they will need to operate in for the rest of their lives.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/14/23458247/elon-musk-fires-engineer-correcting-twitter" rel="nofollow">https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/14/23458247/elon-musk-fires...</a>