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> School is there to show kids how to teach themselves anything they want to learn. Not to spoonfeed them specific skills they may or may not want to have.

Eh, debatable. I'd tend to say that ideally school is there to give kids experience with a wide range of activities and to try to inspire in them a love of learning in at least one of them, as well as the basic methodologies of doing so.

I don't think spoon-feeding, or making people learn skills they blatantly don't like, has great returns. But I wouldn't go quite so far as saying school's just there to show them how to learn - considering how directed the learning environment is, school doesn't really seem to spend much time on that at all.