Take Five
Supreme Allied Commander
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Well, we're talking here about an institution that is set up to help people. Specifically in a field where one often needs help to know how to begin to ask for help.
It's not necessarily reasonable to tell a twelve-year-old, hey, you don't like what we're insisting you have to do or else be a failure to society? Well, it's on your own head then.
Everyone needs some kind of guidance at some stage.
EDIT:
That is to say, the whole point of learning is to empower people to think for themselves. So it's kind of ridiculous, when an educational system has failed in that mission to then go to the systemically powerless and say, dude, pick yourself up. What's wrong with you?
That's the whole problem to begin with.
I'm not sure that the educational system has failed in that mission. There are lots of people with whom education has succeeded. There's no magic button the system can push to make everyone learned and rational beings. The way things work is that the student has to put in effort, not just get spoonfed. How and why would a 12 year old know better anyway? Children think of any excuse not to like school.