Is the traditional education brainwashing the students?

I don't agree with the fact that the public school system brainwashes its students because nobody is forced to believe that everything you learn in school will serve you in your future or forced to believe that there's just one way to do things. Even if being self-reliant is an amazing way to keep the false information away from us, self-directed might not always be the best way to learn certain things such as medicine. You can do all the research In the world to learn how to treat a certain cancer but you can't acquaint the right techniques to perform a retraction of a tutor just by looking…