Choose How?

We are taught by our parents that there are subjects NOT to discuss. Among these are, religion and politics for example.  In this country there are endless choices. But are they free choices?  People deeply involved in them for the most part, try to convince others, including their kids that their choice is the best one. But how prepared are new adults to make the choices with open minds, minds that are not like traps already full but ones that are clean, empty and searching?  Schools perhaps, instead of loading kids up with the useless pastime of homework, which I have never understood, might give courses on how to go about the basics of selecting and I don't mean drugs,  instead of hammering out candlesticks or stitching duffel bags which almost no one does in the real world anyway.   And how about the matter of ethics so one can fit into all the chaos outside the school walls while making the important life choices? We talk about freedom all the time and how it's being broken, but what do we know about how to handle it?Wouldn't it be lovely if the young could walk into adulthood not being pulled and pushed in every direction but simply, without a lot of influence, enjoy the freedom of searching openly and confident in knowing how to go about it?