I went to school in the 50's and 60's. It was a constant struggle to be "me" and not one of "them". To conform was the ultimate goal. Few teachers(a far higher percentage than now)were willing to let me go my own way.

I was a voracious reader with a photographic memory. I often was pushed by ignorant teachers to accept something they said that was simply incorrect. When I'd show them in books where they were wrong it was not to my benefit.

The Marxist type of teaching wasn't nearly to the point of where we find it now. I hear children quoting teachers and see their work now that simply makes my head reel. They graduate and rely on cash registers to compute the answer for them in making change. No doubt pictures of products sold are much preferable to having them be able to identify such.

And still, younger people even in the 50's can't understand that a scanner isn't always correct. They don't even think about freedom and being their own person for the main part. Those who do suffer in the work place more than the purely incompetent.