This is from a recent article about New York City schools:

The U.S. education system has wrestled for decades with an endemic problem: Boredom is pervasive in high school. A disengaged teenager is a teenager in danger of dropping out.

Dan Klores, the gray-bearded, Brooklyn-raised founder of the Earl Monroe School, wanted to chart a new course…

Early on, Mr. Klores conducted a survey of the 110 students in the inaugural ninth-grade class, posing a simple question: “What more do I want out of school?”

He pored through the responses. An unexpected answer repeatedly emerged.

“To learn how to make money.”

It’s nice to know these young kids want to be successful capitalists.  Too bad the schools don’t teach them how.