Formulating useful questions is the basis of human survival. It has always been this way.

 Many people might say: "It isn't questions but answers that are important!"

No. Unless you formulate the right questions for any given problem answers don't arrive usually in time to save ANYONE!

So, this is why High School and College are often so important in people's lives. It's not about the socialization. It's not about the trades you learn. It's about whether ANY of us survive what is coming for us by:

LEARNING TO FORMULATE USEFUL QUESTIONS SOON ENOUGH SO WE CAN SURVIVE WHATEVER COMES.

What happens to the rest of the people who don't ask these questions of themselves or others.

THEY USUALLY DON'T MAKE IT. THEY AND THEIR KIDS DON'T SURVIVE UNLESS THEY ARE ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS.