Difference between school indoctrination and earnest scientific inquiry is like night and day. School can't be your base of comparison because there are like a gazillion trillion problems with it. But if you a) spend time on learning about the methodology of science, and b) identify the researchers who follow good methodology and have deep inquiry while standing on solid research from their predecessors, then that seems better to me. Then you'd be looking into questioning our best science, not the ways of thinking and disconnected factoids that our school system propagates.

From the many sources on the methodology of science, the best one I know (not for the faint hearted) remains Science and Sanity.