> What's the point of going to school if all the world knowledge is in your pocket?

To learn how to apply said knowledge?

A primary purpose of school is to learn and practice social norms and encourage conformity thereto. Taken from that lens, it is perhaps unsurprising that in China, a society moving towards an AI-surveilled and -managed future, such technology would be implemented in schooling as well; a graduating workforce already accustomed to wholesale observation will not complain about it elsewhere in their daily lives.

Whatever you want to call them, the basics/classics/fundamentals are all just primers to get your mind firing on all cylinders. Having access to all the knowledge in the world is useless if you don't know what questions to ask or what direction to take. And since everyone doesn't learn in the same manner, exposure to a wide variety of subject matter eventually works well enough for most people.