Do you have kids? You’re going straight to planets huh.
Before I realized this world is just as interesting, but school does everything to make you bored of it before you can explore it.
In a sense, the most important thing school does is to build up within students a tolerance of boredom and an appreciation of the fact that most work is potentially boring.
You can plow through boring work if the end goal is exciting. For example, when developing a game that you yourself want to play :)
Not that most people like games, but everyone has their own goal, even if they haven't discovered them yet, even if it's just to chill in a nice place and do nothing all day, they can still find better ways to be lazy! (build better furniture, explore the search for the ideal climate etc.)
What is with all this defeatist give-up-by-default attitude? There's NO fucking way that the current common system of human education, which has been pretty much the same for hundreds of years, is perfect.