b-man

I take a libertarian stance on that too man. But I also follow a pluralist approach on how people organize their own systems, so if people want to trust the government (specially in very miserable and risk intense areas I do believe the government can play a very important role to set up a framework that could be built by incremented the individuals).

That's exactly the point of constructionism (the epistemological school that the article's author subscribe to). The objective of the educational system is to form citizens capable of critical thinking and independence, something that a soldier is very much discouraged to do, so your analogy is exemplary of an incorrect approach for the educational system (which is our current rigid model, of course).