Really interesting and well put Perceval.
This made me think a bit (could be wrong here): So we have all these signs, from the cosmos, from political situations, animal deaths, police state, history etc. One way perhaps to look at it is there are some students who are busy with their own stuff and not really paying attention, and those kind of students may also form groups (with similar interests) and therefore interact and feed their own 'reluctancy' (or non-readiness) and learn things at a different pace. Not that this is bad or good, but just that it is. You could say that they're certain steps below of this other group:
Students who are interested in those signs and pay attention to what the teacher says and shows, make their homework, and group up with the other kids who have similar interests. They then strengthen each other's capabilities, they share their strengths with each other. One may be good at this subject and explains this to the others, the other may be more knowledgeable about another subject and shares this with them, etc. Everyone gives their bit to the whole. This way their learning experience expands (exponentially) and is greater than those who do not. And some of these students may graduate 'quicker' than those who don't pay (at that 'point in time') attention in school this way.
Again, no bad or good, everyone is at a certain point of learning certain lessons. Maybe this last group of students were the non-interested ones in their past lives, and perhaps after having made mistakes and mistakes throughout lifetimes, they realized they've had it, and they want to pay attention now, lessons that are not only of an individual nature, but also perhaps universal lessons.
Then you have students of the same who pay attention, but have not been able to meet other people with similar interests, they get stuck in groups of these other 'non-paying-attention' students, and get influenced and start to join them. Then you have those who see some of the signs but don't know how to act properly or how to strategically let their voices be heard.
For example, if indeed (as came out of my P&H session) I was someone in one of my past lives, who got locked up for life for having an opinion, perhaps I didn't have the knowledge or critical support back then to know how to go about responding to information strategically. Perhaps in this life I was able to find my family tribe, so to speak, which has taught me the tools to not only increase my knowledge and understanding, but to also know how to speak up strategically. Giving me a format to do so (sott.net, forum). And thus spread information in a helpful and clever way.
In any case, it seems to me that we live in a period of 'time' where a lot of information is available, and for a certain group of people this may speed up the individual and collective learning experience. Which is also why it may be important for this group of people to help those who are a step behind (obviously in an appropriate and externally considerate way). Let me say that if it wasn't for Laura putting up her material on the internet (for free even!) I don't know where I would be right now. And this also stresses the important point of what the C's have been saying: to recognize what Laura and the Sott team have been doing so much, they continue to bring out the signal so that more and more people may pick it up. And if we could help them to continue their works, and put efforts ourselves in translating, sharing or writing a Sott article, who knows, we may even bring someone who wants to know all of this material, but has been unable to find it or understand it, to finding it, which may help this person greatly.
And perhaps (big fwiw here), the classroom holds no purpose at some point anymore, for example for those in the first group I mentioned, of which some may be absolutely non-interested in matters that will help improve the quality of life of humanity/nature in a collective sense. So maybe then, for the majority of those, the classroom might just as well be cleaned out.
Or so I think, for what it's worth.
in one ear and out the other. Although, maybe the 'universe' learns through us, so the lessons are not wasted in that broader sense. It also brings to mind the comment by Gurdjieff that at times of cosmic change, all of the knowledge that is available and which most people don't want, is collected by some few individuals. 
