Nice use of the word adication. Most kids who go through the school system don't wind up addicted to anything. The education system was originally designed to educate voters so that they could make intelligent decisions in elections.
It has come to provide an essential homogenizing influence. Everyone knows about king Henry the eighth and his wives and how to do multiplication. Without knowing basic facts about grammar, history mathematics etc it's very hard to get along in society without looking like an idiot.
That being said you don't have to go to public school. While education is compulsory the manner of education is left up to the individual.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.