What do you consider important to be taught in education?

One very important thing that we seem to fail to teach people is that the standard form of "education" is not the only route. We force people into these square little rooms and flash a bunch of facts and pictures in front of them, then tell them that how successful they will be is contingent on how good they are at repeating back what we showed them. It's brainwash. Creativity and exploration and experimentation and [i]experience[/i] need to be integrated into education. Freedom of thought is severely undervalued.