Tsoding’s short youtube video commenting on educational system is pretty much dead-on. youtube
I feel like that this especially rings true in a Chinese context, where conformity and alignment is much more favorable than uniqueness and ingenuity.
枪打出头鸟, every kid in china was told this sentence early on, which roughly translates to “the first bird gets shot first”.
Sometimes it depresses me to think I can do nothing about this.