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The schooling system has goals that are not beneficial for the growth and development of anyone participating in it. I am speaking from personal experience here, as I do not know how other schooling systems are, aside from what I have heard about them.
Ignoring the power tripping teachers and other of the many questionable practices and doings of schools, the most important thing is the "how." How is the information transmitted in order to facilitate deeper understanding and further transmission? The most common method is giving a book and repeating, or consuming, the information, forcefully drilling it into your brain, until you can play it back word by word. The additional trauma aside, this method is woefully inefficient and you forget most of the information in a few days, due to it being in your short memory.
The goal being to demonstrate that you have understood it, not by practicing, but by repeating it like it has been given. This misses the point altogether, when schools could teach better methods of memorizing, such as memory palaces[1]. Without practical application, the information will be quickly dismissed as useless by the brain and in turn forgotten. This is one of the reasons on why the students think many of the taught subjects are boring, because of the inefficient way of teaching.
To take an example: programming. In schools, usually being taught as a "mental ctrl-c ctrl-v," where you are forced to remember blocks of code, without understanding what each individual piece does, only seeing the bigger picture (not to speak of not even touching computers and writing it on chalk boards!). Without any practical application, it is quickly dismissed as boring, or hard to understand.
Impractical methods aside, schools just focus not only on the emotional development of students, but on truly practical things, for example how to be fully self reliant and a basis on how to live, not just consuming information then spitting it out. This way we would avoid, as a society, many of the challenges faced by today's people.