Are we moving away from ourselves?

Have you ever wondered how people lived before the induction of a public education system? How were they 'educated'? How were they earning? One often reads reports about a person's ability/talent to be maximum when they are a child. And in our own personal experience, we realize that we move away from it as we grow older. We no longer think it's important to play outside. We no longer think that mistakes are a part of life. Rather, to quote Sir Ken Robinson from his TED Talk "We are educated out of this". Listening to such talks makes me realize that there was a time in history where people would theorize. They would theorize about our very existence, about why we have days and nights, about why the earth is round etc. Some of these theorists have gone on to make a name that will be etched in history as the "father's" of a certain phenomenon. But that is not what I want to focus on. Since the advent of public education system, I have observed a decline in the creative interests of people all around me. We are all trying to be industry ready to land that job, to get that pay raise and to buy that car. This leads me to believe that each one of us has not discovered themselves enough. This further trickles down to unfulfilled potential in each one of us thereby, resulting in an unhappy tomorrow. So, I am going to urge each one of you to reconnect with your core self, discover and let the journey take you where it may.