And as a centrist, my philosophy on learning is "Do as thou wilt". People should be able to learn whatever they wish, but only because they want to, not because it's being shoved down their throats.
Nowadays, we have a bit of a rock/hard place situation going on in education, or as I like to put it, the "damned both ways" scenario. If you DON'T get good grades from a flawed GPA system for learning biased opinions and partial truths from high schools so you can get into college, then you're considered a lazy, worthless bum who can't cut the cheese when it comes to brains, and noone wants to hire you; which sucks because we're taught the only good jobs are powerful high paying ones that let you explore the world, cure cancer, and step on the moon; all while getting a bajillion dollars an hour (Since when were we expected to become Scrooge McDuck!?). On the other hand,if you DO play the game and come out on top, you're sunk, because millions of other people already have the same degrees and more from the same school you went to, and there's no possible way you all can get that multi-million dollar job (unless you wait for inflation to do it's thing, that is); you'll be considered "rich" and "overqualified" so that most jobs will turn you away wanting to give the "little man" a chance, (that is, if they don't wonder why such an educated guy like yourself couldn't get a better job with all his fancy degrees and crap); and since you have basically no other skills, you end up having to slink back home to leech of your folks until McDonalds gives you that promotion. Also, there's the slight strong chance that whatever you get a degree in will be useless outside of college. Damned one way, damned another.
Most people look at this situation and decide the only solution is to cram even MORE knowledge down their head, which may or may not be actually correct. What they don't know is, the more you try to become a jack-of-all-trades, the more you're gonna suck at every one of those skills. The obvious solution here would be to stick to a specific skill you're happy/comfortable with and specialize in it, but there's no knowing whether or not that skill will actually be valuable, needed, or financially supporting in the next 20 to however-long-you-plan-to-work years. Also, there's the aforementioned social bias on college and the choice on entering or not.

I can honestly say that I have no idea what to do about this situation. But then again, I'm only 19 years old, so what do I know?