Earlier it was a bit difficult to get information about what interests you but in today's time because of internet everything has become much easier than we would have ever thought. In just few clicks we could get information about anything or anybody no matter where we are .
Present time has provided us open sources of knowledge and the one who is keen would know it somehow at some point of time. It has become convenient but what actually lacks here is awareness about how important knowledge is to us and how it could bring on drastic changes in us and our society.
No doubt schools are meant for the same purpose but they do have a criteria which they work on basically your lesson plans. Those plans do not include everything but encylopedias , wikipedias and what not is out there to provide information.
I feel this pressure of learning from text books have resticted us into a small world with a lot of confines .
We need to step out of those and encounter the bigger world out there full of loads of information and knowledge.