Critique on Education We all know that Education is important, however, what I want to discuss here is formal education. I believe formal education is overrated, expensive, inflexible and the traditional way of teaching is outdated. Formal education is amazingly good, at killing critical thinking, which is the engine of our society. by having someone standing and lecturing people and the person has done the same lecture for over 10 years in a roll and they're not excited about anymore. we are also taught that the teacher is the source of all truths, but that's not true whatsoever, we need to bring the critical thinking back. We learn things that are not applicable to our personal/professional lives, we are forced to learn things we do not have interest in. That by itself kills the desire to be a beast in some specific area, once you have to be good at so many subjects at the same time. The concept of grades is something that is holding us back as well, due to the fact that having good grades it's all about memorizing. If we go back in history we will see that the greatest minds of all time they did not have anything but their minds, thoughts, and doubts that they tried to solve on their own. That's called Critical Thinking.