Stilly - when I weas a teenager in the 1970s,
we had the benefit of hippy and punk counter-culture
informing the music we listened to,
and the youth media magazine articles we read..

This was entirely outside of straight establishment school education.
That's how a lot of us acquired such positive life long skills..

sceptisism, cynicism, iconoclasm, mistrust of authority..

It was because I'd already acquired these skills.
which lead me to go back into education at 22,
specifically choosing a Humanities degree subject
which would further hone that skill set...

Sadly, since I was a student in the early 80s.
Society has become far more conservative,
deliberately combatting and mostly defeating counter culture influences on young minds.

Replacing it with conformism, irrational fear of 'the different',
and hostility towards any humanist progressive idealism...