Schools are not actually teaching kids nowadays, they are just making them act like good and obedient robots that should follow what they are being told. Throwing at them a lot of useless and hard to process information about various things, expecting them to learn... excuse me to remember all that for no apparent reason and for no future use. Just to let them rediscover some of these things later on in life if/when they may actually need them.
Schools nowadays do not promote creativity or thinking for yourself, you just need to learn what you are being told and that should be enough... I said learn again, correction, remember some facts and numbers as well as what goes where, not learn why and how it does it, but just remember the order it happens. Robots and more robots, easy to control and not thinking for themselves, just following what they are being told.
I remember from my school days that there were just two teachers that were different in their approach and I'm grateful to these people that actually helped in shaping me and most importantly my mind and helping me turn to what I have become. It is a shame that they were just two out of many, many that were like robots themselves, not caring much about what they were actually teaching and most importantly how!
Guess why they are not teaching anything about Tesla or other unconventional people in school, because it is not the norm and they just won't deviate from it... otherwise the little robots may decide to revolt and start thinking for themselves.
I had some great teachers too.
An overly conventional teacher cannot get excited about an overly unconventional historical figure. We are not attracting the right people to teaching!!!!!!! I think this is why I should open up a school!!!!!! I'm the most unconventional person I know...
Agree that a conventional teacher can hardly even think about some other unconventional approaches to convey a topic in a more interesting and attractive way to the kids. Even make them really get to learn the specific material by getting them interested in it in some way. So how can then we expect that person to talk about an unconventional figure, then again they may even consider people like that controversial and bad as an example instead of letting the kids decide what might be good and bad for themselves.
As for opening a school, that may not be a bad idea, you have already made something close to that here on Steemit already... so maybe you should think about that one a bit more. ;)