That information is available to them now. I don't find that they get it.

I am learning a musical instrument. My practice is much more reliable when I have weekly lessons.

People are funny. Not haha funny. Complicated funny.

I wholeheartedly agree. But the (at least American) education system is build around obtaining checkmarks on a degree audit so you can get the credentials to get a job. I think its a deep issue and you have to start with simpler problems near the top rather then heading straight to 'break the wheel'.

Most people are not cut out to learn like Good Will Hunting.

I don't think you need to be exactly a genius in order to watch videos on the internet. It requires even less effort than attending a lecture, and has many benefits (cheaper, you can literally replicate the best lecturer in the universe for everyone, you can rewatch inifinite amount of times...).

Videos are generally much more boring to watch than a live teacher. I definatley don't expect students to watch the same 1 hour video twice.

But what's the alternative? I see this sentiment repeated all the time and no one offers any workable alternatives.

The alternative should be to make more classes elective and provide less rigorous versions.

There's really no point teaching most kids anything beyond the basics of most subjects.

Spend more of our resources on motivating subjects & topics, rather than just telling kids to learn things.

If the kids aren't interested in learning what you're teaching, it doesn't matter what you're teaching anyway, you're just creating stress on everyone for no reason.

Maybe I'm extrapolating too much from my own experiences, but I lost nothing when I dropped physics because my teacher was an asshat, nor from sticking with chemistry because my teacher was a non-asshat.