In my experience , when you are in an educational setting - like school for me - over time one loses the desire and drive to gain new skills and knowledge.
The school I attended was in Austria in a very rural place. They tried to up date their curriculum by including a scientific branch. Although the aim , I guess , was to appear modern, the other classes where lacking modern themes or where very depended on the class teacher if you have a good experience with the topic.

In my future school I like to see more involvement from the students what each individually wants to learn and how to learn it. Then they have arrange themselves in groups with overlapping interests. At the end of a semester they give a presentation or share their acquired knowledge with the class.
This way the students learn to form and work in teams early on. By them choosing the topics themselves, the frustration level will be lower. By sharing it with the rest of the class The teacher changes his/her/their role from a mere lecturer to more of a counsellor when problems arise or the pupils get stuck. He/She could also provide topics if the students are unsure what to work on.