I think that part of this discussion is what do I want to be when I grow up? It is framed around the well-known decline of our educational system in which student self-esteem is more highly prized than actual learning (which includes the possibility, horror of horrors, of failing) I see this right now in my 16-year-old daughter and her friends. They have all been taught, consistently, that they are great, they are beautiful, they have great lives ahead of them, etc. However, they have not learned much about the value of failing and working hard to overcome it. If they have a hard time with anything, they quickly abandon the effort and go back into their comfort zone and then rail about how unfair or unimportant the task/event/whatever was, anyway. Don't get me wrong: they are all great kids, but they simply have not been exposed to the rough and tumble of the real world and are not even minimally prepared for what is going to happen when they strike out on their own and find out that no one really cares about their self-esteem, their desires, their dreams, etc.

For example, it sounds really romantic to finish high school and then travel for five years to experience the world. How exactly will someone fund that trip? What happens when you are mugged in Paris and left without your passport and money? Call mommy? What happens when your sailboat is captured by pirates in the South Pacific? I know, I know, these things will not happen to you (though I did take these stories from recent newspaper articles where it actually happened.) But the point is that everyone has to prepare for the future and negative outcomes of our decisions. Education should be one way to do that.

Bottomline, it is great to question society and how things work or do not work and what is fair and unfair. Just keep in mind that this is all great fodder for philosophical discussions, but will not help you to pay the rent. As other have mentioned, this will become more apparent when you graduate from being a dependent and start to have your own dependents to take care of.

Enough of Playing "Resident Evil".. Let's confront Resident Truth

At the end of the day, we provide ourselves with whatever education we desire. We also need to provide proof that we have undertaken acquiring the education that society says we should have.

At the end of that same day, twite needs to stop bellyaching about all the demands made on him by the lousy school system, society, parents and teachers who are charged with his "updragging ". And judging by the demeanor of his posting he needs to be dragged, because he's simply not going to go either willingly or quietly!
Kiss my a**, I'm a "visual mathematician", more or less.

Even if we accept that not everyone will do something that will truly change the world, we all need to do our level best to at least not make it worse.

school is very important cause without it you wouldnt have any kinda of social or people skills.

Tribal people have the best people skills, not like our society!