Do you think that schools protect the young generation too much?

lol. My point here is something like, "Which is more important, academic learning or life learning?" Academic learning is usually learned or already found in the net that one can only search it up, memorize, take the school test, and you have good grades if you recall most of them. (At least that's how I do in my school. So leaving class to take an important phone call (only my family can do that--and it only happens rarely) is A-OK)While learning how to handle certain things that comes to life is learned, remembered and maintained. Most of the time they are never forgotten compared to academic lessons such as "what happened during the 17XX year?". The young generation today may need guidance but only to a certain extent, I believe, seeing as the youth today know so much compared to how people are before at their age. As you said, a student can text to a friend the answers to a test, but through this experience, that student may learn that he/she is being used by others to get correct (and wrong) answers. Wouldn't she/he learn that it is ethically wrong? Yes, it might take time. But when have people lost the time to learn the "important" lessons of life? Unless if the "important" lessons of life became the "Academic" lessons in school, that's another story... You can say it would be too late. But I don't think it is too late as long as the person in question is still alive.(As long as there is life there is hope) Life lessons really does take time and understanding. But it is a lesson that will not be forgotten by those who really LEARNED them; not memorize. Lessons in life is always useful within a lifetime and learning them is just one of the things that make life worth living.