Nice post. I would have been gouging out my eyes with you yesterday. (I've left several eyeballs in classrooms where similar "enlightenment" was had).
I doubt we'll move in any significant way to the model implied by your post. I think there's one dominant reason we serve internally first and have a weak curricula -- the desire to control a far flung church and keep it "the same." No other faith has such uniformity, and it takes work to maintain. And the weaknesses you identify are in some ways method of uniformity control, I think.
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"Now I say that I know the meaning of my life: 'To live for God, for my soul.' And this meaning, in spite of its clearness, is mysterious and marvelous. Such is the meaning of all existence." Levin, Anna Karenina, Part 8, Chapter 12
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