I must say that I agree with a large part of what you say in this publication, in fact, I already made a few months ago my personal rant against this institutional educational model.

The Educational System: When the student stops being the Consumer, it becomes a product.

I think my impact with the education system was not so much as considering myself a genius, but rather something like "Hey, everyone here is an idiot or what?"

I remember thinking that my teachers did not know anything since my first grade, later I realized that adults did not know anything, and that's how I ended up getting rid of the myth of authority, from there I started to investigate and read only about what I found it interesting, and I forgot the school, my grades began to descend, but that had me without the least care, unfortunately I fell into the mouth of the wolf, I formed several wrong ideas in my head, for trusting in dubious sources, but this process of experimentation ended up helping me a lot by looking at it in retrospect.

But in school I was actually told that I would loose marks if I use more advanced methods or simply skip some steps by doing calculations in my head. Basically I was given the choice to bow down and act like an idiot or get lower marks in the tests.

Literally this happened to me too.

I remember once, my first day seeing the subject of economic calculation, and the first thing the instructor did was pose a problem, I remember that it took me no more than 10 seconds to solve it mentally, then she asked me to go to the blackboard and explain to all my answer, which had been correct, my method was unorthodox, so he asked me to formulate it, which I did not do, she said that I had a disordered mind. Then, when it was time for the first exam, it was a Catholic institution, so she left the room and left all the students alone, to prove our honesty. At the request of all my colleagues, I explained how to solve the problem using the instructor's method, but I still decided to use my personal method in my test, except for me, everyone approved. The instructor said that I had failed because I performed calculations in my mind, instead of writing them, and she also said that I had not followed her method. Later, that same instructor was in charge of teaching the accounting subject, at that time, I decided to do things her own way, which led me to be her favorite student, in such a way that I was exempt from presenting test, instead of that gave me the task of placing a score to the test of my classmates. As you can see, the instructor ended up bending my behavior, which was really her job, so that I understood that if I do things as the authority demands, I will succeed.

Actually, my whole conception of education is based on the fact that we must learn to read, and then, based on a purely critical thought, we must acquire the rest of knowledge, but not obeying an authority, but our individual search and desire.

However, it's like Jobs said:

“You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.”

Even though I had already developed an adverse thought towards the education system, I decided to study law at the university, after a year, I left it, somehow I had to prove it to be sure that I did not miss anything, I wanted to know if the university education It would be different from the rest, and it really was more of the same, you could learn more on your own than by going to that place.

oops, I'm sorry I've extended the comment so much.