Here is a question: What is the happiest school in the world? Which school most reliably produces the most well-adjusted human beings?
Is it not revealing that we do not have a well-versed answer to this question?
By way of clarification, If I switch the question to: What is the best school in the world? We all have a plausible answer to offer.
Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Oxford, the Sorbonne. Or if you know high schools you might say Phillips Andover or Eton or African Leadership Academy.
Debates will rage, of course. Harvard? Stanford? What about Yale? How about Oakland College Prep? But you get the point. When the metric is not "best"--i.e. most prestigious and where people feel they will gain status and wealth--to happiness and health, we are all left wanting.
The happiest school in the world? The one with the healthiest curriculum? Where your inner genius is nurtured and developed and cultivated such that you can succeed within the system or beyond it but not fall victim to its stresses and superficialities? Where you begin your practice as a citizen of a sustainable world? A school that teaches kids to fall in love with educating themselves?
Shouldn’t we all know a dozen schools that make that their goal? Or a hundred? Should not they be the norm?