Some excellent points in your posts, but I don't think the changes you propose can be achieved in the school system that we have today. I don't know any country that has a system allowing for critical thinking, as most focus on memorizing tons of useless information.
Honesty is also tricky. Teaching the kids that their country is not the greatest in the world...I don't think so... I live in Romania and we've recently had the case of teacher who announced that she doesn't really care about teaching Romanian literature too much and wants to focus on other foreign writers. This caused quite an uproar, because you cannot say your national writers are not the best in the world... although they're really not that great and nobody's ever heard about them.
The teaching environment should be completely overhauled and have it centered on the child's interests, not on curriculum and tests.
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Neither do I. Yet I am not the one enamored and fixated on this current system. That is our governments and a lot of the population. It is far easier to stick with what they know than to take the difficult path and get rid of it and replace it. Sadly people will usually take the easy path even if it isn't working.
My previous post was basically about that. Yet I was asked How I would do it... so I wrote this post in response to that question.