Some very successful, brilliant people have agreed with you. Rabindranath Tagore (first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature), for example, founded a school based on your principles. He didn't spoon-feed anyone. He wanted students to be in a natural environment, to allow curiosity to lead the way. Marie Curie, also (two Nobel Prizes) dreaded sending her daughters to school. She eventually relented because they had to pass some formal examinations to move on to higher education. But, when they were young, she asked a few of her brilliant colleagues at the Sorbonne to informally expose the girls to ideas and to encourage them to follow their interests. An article on Tagore and his theory of education: http://newlearningonline.com/new-learning/chapter-2/rabindranath-tagores-school-at-shantiniketan. And, an excerpt from a book, "Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science's First Family", by Shelley Emling, that describes Murie Curie's approach to educating her children: https://books.google.com/books?id=zMozSq4Kf38C&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&dq=Marie+Curie+educates+her+daughters+at+the+sorbonne&source=bl&ots=4hExhbCglK&sig=5gjnTkZTZuWZzia-OUyQOlP9Sdw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ5_WB6brZAhUqnOAKHT9aCDw4ChDoAQg2MAU#v=onepage&q=Marie%20Curie%20educates%20her%20daughters%20at%20the%20sorbonne&f=false