There are a lot of comments to make, but let me start with the impact on self esteem.

In the education system, you work on whatever task there is that day, but it's always something where you can be right, wrong, or scored in between. Maybe on some rare days, you are 100% right. But mostly, as a student, what you do will be imperfectly scored. That makes sense of course, it's just a numbers game. A function of personal alignment with whatever the mindless tasks are that day; with what you are wired for - whether it's languages, maths, art, etc.

But that means you will go through the prime brain and character developing part of your life, being always a little bit wrong. That's what unfortunately gets reinforced during education. For 1-2 decades, five days a week: You got that a bit wrong, you as you are, aren't quite good enough.

That must really impact us. What a destructive feedback loop.

Imagine instead if we look at what people are, not what they aren't. Identify, nurture, develop. With support, guidance, and encouragement, but not pressure, or curtailment.

Well, I guess you already are :)