Consider:
(author unknown, and forget the fake einstein quote)
I support many of the conclusions and viewpoints offered by John Taylor Gatto's work... the Nuremberg funnel principle is not sustainable.
You have a point, though: school must empower children, and the grown-ups they become, if the world is to be healed.
It is so valuable - real knowledge-based education. Not a day wasted in school - every day solving new and harder puzzles with a reason and a logical meaning. Imagine :D
I'm a logic-driven person myself, so please don't misunderstand when I say that reason and logic are not the only value.
Imagine instead a school that helps children develop their own natural skills and talents - suum cuique, if you will. Where, although everyone learns the basic and fundamental skills in everything, each one can decide for herself which venue to pursue, which knowledge or understanding to deepen. In my view, it is not the job of the school to produce supermen, but to assist them develop and control their powers, be they water, fire, earth or wind.