[AnimalMuppet]

Perhaps off topic, but: It's not just schooling. Work has a meaning crisis. Parenting has a meaning crisis. One might almost say that life has a meaning crisis.

And because of all that, of course schooling has a meaning crisis. Oh, you tell me that an education is the way to get a better job? OK, boomer, why do I want that? Oh, that's how I get a "better life"? Why do I want that?

[ChaitanyaSai]

Agree, and it's hard to think about fixing education in isolation. But we've got to start somewhere to fix the meaning void. Easiest first step is to not take play away.