To quote an artist friend: exposure is good until you die from it.
Being forced to do subjects that you hate is not exposure, it is being forced to do things which you are completely unsuited for.
I would go so far as saying that being forced to take music until 7th grade put me off any musical pursuits for the next 20 years. The less said about the torture disguised as education that is PE the better.
Yeah that's a common result of forced learning by lets be polite mediocre folks. Utter hate of the whole topic for easily 2 decades too. Then finding slowly my own personal way back to them, despite school.
If anything, current (and this is valid globally) school system is not designed at excellence at its core, its about raising an army of obedient but not too stupid citizens. And its not missed expectation, just look at what type of work they expect to fill in. Don't expect massive changes unless society changes itself.
Some narrow excellence is not what our society at large values, those few that made it through made it despite their environment.
Being forced to do subjects that you hate is not exposure, it is being forced to do things which you are completely unsuited for.
I would go so far as saying that being forced to take music until 7th grade put me off any musical pursuits for the next 20 years. The less said about the torture disguised as education that is PE the better.