&gt;It is incredibly important to force people to learn stuff that they might forget even existed in a few years. A free and appropriate public education is one of the greatest things we as a civilization can provide to our citizens. Education is possibly the greatest civil right we possess.<p>I believe in this ideal as well.<p>But I do wonder how it can be that there are TV shows filled with people who appear to have learned absolutely nothing in school. How can it be that even though schooling is free in most of the west, I&#x27;ve personally interviewed fewer people who knew the expectation of a dice roll than people who didn&#x27;t (by a gigantic margin)? And that&#x27;s selected from people with degrees in STEM. I wonder whether the problem is how schools are organized, what values they instil in the kids, which people teach the kids.