Since completing high school last year, I've had time to think about Year 12 and the education system itself. For many of us, the slow progression through 13 years of schooling is an accepted drudgery – a compulsory norm that demands as much time as it does conformity.

Although we go to school to receive an "education", which by normal standards encompasses a government approved standardised curriculum, I've come to realise that such a system does not foster individual development or true learning.

The most ubiquitous lesson of school is that learning is a painful slog rather than an exciting portal which enables us to play with our inquisitiveness and creativity.

As Ken Robinson writes in his acclaimed book Creative Schools, we are "trained in the story that some people are intelligent and some are not" and that "those who are will succeed and get well paid jobs". But what about the darker side, where countless kids fall between the cracks and seem destined to fail?