[aristeides]

I don't agree with that at all. The German concept of providing Bildung, general education, seems to me to make a lot more sense. Maybe the recipients of such education will not advance as far as people who receive a more utilitarian education. But so what? The most prestigious jobs are really pretty empty, and the people I see who have them are, for the most part, pretty unfulfilled.

Get a decent education, get a decent job that gives you an adequate living and is reasonably useful to the society, and I think that's enough. A real education will certainly help you to raise properly any children that you may have.

[concerned about politics]

Get a decent education,

There's more to life than one simple english class over a span of 12 years.
Public schools raise the kids in a box, with the same kids as last year, and the year before that. Kids need to get out, see, and learn about the real world, not the illusionary world of liberal utopia. The world should be their class room, and the public sector their teachers.
You're one little speck in the fabric of time. A year from now, those students probably won't even remember your name.