Education is a funny thing. It is both held in the highest regard and thrown to the gutter by a vocal minority. It is pilloried as being the weakest link in the intellectual evolutionary scale and the bastion of bad memories. There is no winning these arguments. What I would argue is that when you are in school you need to realize your own beliefs and not be a follower . The thoughts of your parents, friends, even those you do not know but listen should not be an influence.  Your influence has to come from what you put into the system. Work with it and have enjoyable experiences. Work against and live a life of miserable complaint. It is all in what you decide.