I don't know if you're joking, but here are some answers:
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." — Plutarch
"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself." — John Dewey
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." — Albert Einstein
In order to think complex thoughts, you need to have building blocks. That's why we can think of relativity today, while nobody on Earth was able to in 1850.
May the future be even better than today!
I mean I get all your point. But for someone witnessing rate of progress of AI, I don't understand the motivation.
Most people don't learn to live, they live and learn. Sure learning is useful, but I am genuinely curious why people overhype it.
Imagine you being able to solve math olympiad and get a gold. Will it change your life in objectively better way?
Will you learning about the physics help you solve millennium problems?
These takes practices, there are lot of gatekeeping. The whole idea of learning is for wisdom not knowledge.
So maybe we differ in perspective. I just don't see the point when there are agents that can do it.
Being creative requires taking action. The learning these day is mere consumption of information.
Maybe this is me. But meh.