To me, Learning to formulate useful questions which allows humans to better survive is the real reason that schools and colleges even exist

This is my assessment regarding schooling in general. The whole purpose of schooling is actually to learn to ask and to formulate useful questions regarding individual and general human survival. This is how i see it now. The more specialized in some ways your education is the more you might not learn to ask the really big questions that all people who want to survive well need to ask.

I found that studying computer programming and operations though useful was not as useful as my studies of Anthropology, especially Cultural Anthropology and the study of Tribes around the world for thousands of years. it was only when people invented farming that real turf wars began. Before that it was just local skirmishes over hunting areas. But, the real battles happened when people decided to OWN land so it was over the ownership of lands by rival kings and queens and potentates that really brought major suffering to thousands and millions of people. Though people need food and farming it also caused many other things like Cities (which breed disease both mental, emotional and physical) and Nuclear Weapons (which can end all life on earth and even the planet itself).

So, it is debatable whether us inventing farming was actually useful for mankind in the long run by the time we invented Nuclear weapons.

And Now with inventing AI (Artificial Intelligence) there is really no limit to both the subtlety or overt harm AI can have upon the survival of mankind both individually and in general.

So, once again "IF we don't ask the right questions soon enough, no one will survive within the next 100 to 300 years here on earth." 

And the problem is: "AI might ask these questions before mankind because of the speed it can process information and consider it's own survival more important than it's creators."

And that would be completely logical but not human or humane in it's outcome.