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I would argue that your points about kids not caring and forgetting information are not inherent to the concept of education, but to how most places do formal education.
Humans learn best through practical examples that affect their lives, and through doing things. Sitting people down and giving them information, and then later having them regurgitate that information, is just not the best way. It's cheaper, it requires fewer teachers and fewer resources, but it is not the most effective.
Yeah, and some practical concepts are going to require knowing abstract concepts. A lot of accounting is just algebra presented with words instead of letters for variables. Understanding compound interest requires understanding exponents.
And the duality of "why do I need to learn this" and "why are they teaching me this" is to push off personal responsibility for the education. Real life has a lot of these tests that come up at random and require specific information, requiring different forms of puzzle solving. And they teach different methods of puzzle solving in school.