My personal experience is this: We are not teaching our children to be creative, or how to translate that creativity into a vocation. We are teaching them how to make a machine solve a problem, not how to solve that problem themselves. Creativity is the basis of language, writing, arts and yes, sciences. We have been a dismal failure at this since about 1990 when computers made knowing which button to push more important than being able to visualize a concept heretofore completely unknown to our synapses. There is now far more creativity in the trades than in White collar America, and this is part of the problem. Our Children will be quite prepared to operate a cash register, but can they build a tree house? Can they draw a map? Can they explain to others what they want built? Can they effectively think for themselves?
That last one is particularly important. All of your life you have to weed out the BS from the truth. All of your life you have to communicate your needs and respond to the needs of others. There is no computer that can do that, and a trained brain is what we need. It's far more important to teach children HOW to think and create than it is to teach them what to think or how to source somebody else's opinion which, let's face it, is the main job of the computer. Access to every bit of information in the world is useless to a person who can't put that information to use in a manner that it has never been used before. That's how we innovate and grow.
My job as an Industrial Designer was once perfectly described by a foreman at a fixture and architectural millwork factory when he said: "Your job is to think up goofy s#(t, and my job is to build it." Today's goofy stuff will be tomorrows everyday. We are not teaching our children how to think up goofy stuff anymore, and that's truly sad. The idea of entrepreneurship will soon be strictly an historical concept.