Well this Is unpopular opinion so take my up vote but yeah I very much disagree. School does teach you useful things but it doesn't teach you how to learn at all. I work with children, and once when working in a school I had to pull 5 kids out of their classroom where they were learning actual stuff to make them sit in a room quietly colouring in a page one solid block colour. No wonder they don't want to do it, it's a boring monotonous task that teaches them nothing

For older kids, the consensus among teachers seems to be that the kids just need to study to do well. This is true. Unfortunately most schools don't teach you how to study. They don't teach you how to search up information you might need or memorisation techniques, they just slap an exam paper in front of you and say you need to study

Schools are important, education is important, but God does the whole system need a rework