I don't think schools should educate people.
Pfft. Education rots the brain.
I don't think its the big picture that's the problem--but the little details. There are many people who have to retake subject 'x', when the problem is in the free choice of the student. There are many students who already grasp the concept of a subject, yet there exists the syllabus which details a process by which 'learning' is given.
Which somehow, does not consider personal learning rates or how the student, individually, learns. I'd disagree with you two here, but agree on what you'd probably imply: There are wrongs in our educational system, and I am lost to wonder why those who govern us (or..you? Second person works.) cannot act for reforms on this process.
Skimming over last details: I'll give a RL example.
Here in the Philippines, we don't have sex ed classes. Our biology/gen science teachers explain that process--mostly only when asked as the curriculum doesn't demand that kind of notes. Henceforth, there are many individuals in my country who...do not know the exacts of sex, its consequences, how it works, and the general details behind the thinking or belief.
Though, our culture acts as a preventive measure--parents are the ones who teach their children about sex ed, resulting in a...streamlined, (yet partly subjective) range of knowledge on the subject. If the parents don't teach their children, they pick up the knowledge from other sources...and some of those do not elucidate such a touchy subject, which leads to misunderstanding and...well. Ignorance, in general.
Most stuffs through word of mouth, coupled with the probable perversion that goes around (I haven't been exposed to such so I can only guess by empirical data,) doesn't aid thinking like that, and especially with the spread of the internet and lacking guidance (and not enforcement,
GUIDANCE) with how to treat such a trove of knowledge?
...Values need to be enforced. Sometimes I find myself shaking my head in disbelief on how knowledge can be so
free yet so...misused.