In Brazil it works in a very separatist way, we have public schools and private schools ... public schools, in its big majority, are very precarious in many aspects, from the lack of organization and money to administrate this kind of institution to the lack of a real education ( which fits to both type public and private in most of the cases ). In the category of private schools, we have the sub categories, the one which is financially accessible, the expansive kind and that one only a few can actually pay for. I myself have always studied in the financially accessible ones, which could already offer a lot more than any public school.
There is a quote very often used which says " It`s the student who makes the school good " so it eliminates the teachers actions to make the school good, eliminates the books, and etc. But I don`t agree with this quote, I don`t agree because I think it is not only the student who will make the learning significant and the school a good place, it also includes the teacher, who can change your mind on a specific subject either to a positive or negative side, the teacher`s method to teach counts a lot in this learning process for a student, motivation is another very important point, and schools doesn't give enough importance to this aspect, a discouraged student learns much less, and this motivation comes from the method of teaching, which unfortunately is very backwards and needs to change for better.
So many important issues are left aside due a corrupt government, where the money from taxes are very bad administrated and spent with personal interests of politicians. The lack of a good education is something essencial to keep people`s mind blind to see how wrong it is.
The education system in Brazil ( and I believe in many other countries) is full of failures
Well, summing up my point of view, I think the real education stimulates people`s creativity, but the education which is given makes the opposite path, it cuts creativity and creates frustrated people.
Well, there is so much to be said about it, but basically that`s what I think.
Leave your point of view on the education system in your country.
Peace.

