"Don't Stay in School"

It's probably worth noting that this is more addressing the issue of what people are forced to study in school rather than the avoiding school per se. To quote:

I absolutely love a lot of the subjects I mention in this - astronomy, particle physics, pure maths... but I hate that everyone is forced to learn them. It should be a choice. There are a million other things wrong with education, but this one stood out as the most obvious and most insane.

I'm OK with at least a partial revamping but I think that at least some of what he's dismissive of might be worth retaining. To quote Edmund Burke:

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

That at least partially addresses his comments on history but I'd respond to others in a fairly similar vein.