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I think the current education system is inefficient at best. It also fails to expose kids to variety of skills/professions out there enough, so they can get a taste of what it's like to be this or that. Most kids don't know what they want to do even after starting college because all they've dealt with has been subjects that taught them the tools (e.g. mathematics, language) without giving them context.

Further to that, instead of focusing on minimalism and utility, each subjects goes to depths far beyond of what most kids need to know to make use of. Lo and behold, they're going to forget majority of it in a month. And some subjects have gone completely off the rails, like English, with the main focus on past literature. That's not what natural languages are most used for. Arguments, public speaking, legal, journalism, marketing. These matter day in day out, not what Shakespeare spewed while he was high on an Autumn afternoon. That's fine too but let the kids do it on their own time and focus the efforts in equipping them with critical thinking, etc for when they enter the wild!