But in all seriousness, I do think schools are important. Schools do an essential part for the socialization and preparation of the students for life. (Or they should...)
I have been lucky enough to work at schools which did. And I was lucky enough to have the autonomy to choose the type of work I would do with my students. (Which is why I started this research in the first place, to have more ideas and solutions for typical day-by-day situations.)
And I can not help but feel inspired by people like this young man, who decided to think different. I'm not inspired because he left school. I'm inspired because his parents dared to think different. His parents decided to open up to a possibility that many parents don't.
And that is, for me, the biggest obstacle we still face in education. No matter how much a teacher wants to revolutionize his/her class, no matter how much a school wants to change its ways, if parents are against that change, we are stuck in the same place.
Do we need changes in education, because we need a change in society? Or do we need a change in society because we need to change education?