education and conformity

There is a large tendency among poor teachers to let students deny responsibility instead of accept consequences for their actions. Those who teach with with the opposite goal in mind encourage individual growth. The idea that success is defined as earning a high-powered job is something that schools and society are also inserting into the goals of students. If multiple people are inclined to achieve the same goal, and they're encouraged to grow individually, they will tend to grow in the same way. They will all try to be better than the rest in the same fields of study, they will be encouraged to conform while growing as individuals. Those who don't mature in the same way as the rest will fall behind in the quest for the same goal. So to give a person freedom by trusting them with the accountability of their own actions, causes them to conform to the expectations put on them by their society-imposed goal.