&gt;&gt;&gt; &quot;Schools and parents need to stop blaming each other, and work together to show children that we value learning. We can talk about the importance of education all we want, but our kids are too smart to fall for that hypocrisy. As long as we continue to worship grades over learning, scores over intellectual bravery and testable facts over the application of knowledge, kids will never believe us when we tell them that learning is valuable in and of itself.&quot;<p>And whose fault is that ?<p>Maybe the fact that there are too few jobs.<p>Maybe the fact that wealth inequality is so skewed that only a handful of people are generating all the demand in the labor market.<p>When I survey the state of science in 2015 - there is literally no shortage of avenues to explore. If the demand side of the free market worked well, then their would by now be a pill to cure cancer and would only cost 1 dollar.<p>That is so much innovation locked up in the minds of kids born today. But we spent more and more time teaching them more and more useless stuff since the job market is unable to generate enough demand pushing people to have better CVs, etc.<p>A high school kid today can start innovating and doing all sorts of cool things for very little capital. There is not even much need for schooling. Most of the greatest minds of the past did not even have a formal education - what they did have was a lot of free time.<p>Boredom and Laziness is the source of human ingenuity, not mindless exercises with no real purpose.