This is why it's so important for people to educate their kids. Children tend to look at authority figures such as teachers as being infalliable however they fail to see that most of these so called "educators" are just speaking the party line which was taught to them from other members of the system repeating the party line as well. This is the nature of the game and our society is run by "repeaters".
I never really started learning anything until I got out of school.