In the narrow terms of this article, they need an education that will prepare them to deal in this society.

If this society knew how to deal, we wouldn't be looking down the barrels of an apocalyptic shotgun right now. In it's aggregate mass, society is too arrogant, lazy, and inflexible to change much of anything.

I'll agree with you that the inchoate urges of these youths need to be recognized, but perhaps even more urgently, some exemplary new models need to be articulated, scrutinized, and locally deployed.