I think that is the big problem, if you think about it, music is probably the last thing you should be learning in a school setting.
I love Derek Sivers' story how he basically blasted through Berklee's curriculum with some clever hacks he has a great post about it:
There’s no speed limit. (The lessons that changed my life.)
Thinking about Derek's post now, that one is also about assumptions people hold: why does an education need to last 3 or 4 years, I love how he says "the standard pace is for chumps..."

the way the whole concept of school is designed basically kills creativity: