Humans don't learn very much in the learning 'factories' that we call 'schools', they learn it from each other out in the marketplace: of ideas, of products, of services, of friendships. One example is the printing press. In 50 years from its invention by Gutenberg, printing exploded across Europe (this map understates the rate of change because I'm sure output grew much faster than the number of locations for printing. Yet there were no Devry Institutes or Harvards to teach printing, no printing programs at the local Community College. People learned through apprenticeship, imitation and competition.
Which is the way that most things have always been learned. The centralizing statists of the progressive era persuaded everyone that state funded learning factories run by them would make learning more 'efficient' - so long as all of the power was handed to them (of course). Now a century later, we find we have a voracious monster taking more wealth and power and time from us every year without giving any more value for it.
The "educators" are not on your side, they are on their side.
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