[InclinedPlane]

School basically teaches all the wrong lessons for people going into professional work. Memorize minutiae, plug and chug, devalue high level understanding, concentrate on trivial problems, etc. It's a shame that apprenticeship has fallen out of favor, it's such a vastly superior method to teach professional skills.

[eru]

A comparison with Germany might be insightful here. Apprenciteship is going strong there.