...It's incredible the freedom and the choices that kids have in schools these days...

It is not freedom and choices they need, it is inspiration and excitement about the subjects. What good is it to be able to choose from a dozen mediocre classes.

I have a different point of view about exams though. I loved them. They were the only challenge we got in a whole year of boredom.

It is the whole year of boredom that we need to fix.

Not once during my whole education did we get field trips to museums or art galleries. What the @#^%@ do teachers think that those places are for?

We used to bug our parents for trips to London and we'd visit as many museums as we could. Though often we'd get stuck in the first one and not want to leave. That is really education, not sitting behind a desk bored out of your gawk because some teacher thinks that reading from a book is a substitute for preparing an exciting lesson.