Bad Education

Seems to me that schools are meant to be an efficient way of educating the masses to perform basic skills, but in so doing efficiently squash any love of learning along the way.  I find myself torn between the concepts of delayed academics for younger kids, and higher standards for the bigger ones.   But most of all, I have a nagging suspicion that the whole system is fundamentally flawed, and we need to start looking at education in new ways.