We shouldn't have spent the last 60 years teaching kids that they are entirely the result of random genetic errors. It's an existentially brutal idea that likely contributed to today's high rates of depression — and it's turning out to be false.
What I think will continue to prove out, is that the experiences organisms accumulate while contending with their environment, get logged as 'feature requests' or potentially beneficial alterations, for future generations to try.
This kind of adaptation at the genetic level would be congruent with the behaviors and strategies we see life carrying out at the organismal level — which is that all creatures as a primary activity sense and respond to their environment.
Why would nature waste all those experiences and not learn from them, resorting instead to random mutations and copying errors (most of which would be terrible) at the genetic level? Nature isn't wasteful; it tends to re-use everything.
The mechanisms that would indicate a more purposeful evolution have been apparent for decades now. But old ideas take time to die. For instance, the woman who discovered that genes contained transposable elements that could move around, was ignored in the 1950's... until getting the Nobel in 1983. Huge implications for neo-Darwinism, but I don't remember hearing the news. Did elementary school teachers get the update either?
Schools should never have been induced to teach such an unfounded and psycho-spiritually damaging idea to children as an entirely random evolution. There was never any hard evidence for it; it was just a supposition made up in the absence of hard evidence to the contrary (and maintained even in the presence of hard evidence to the contrary).
What we know, is that new discoveries in biology are happening constantly. Accordingly, such a nihilistic philosophy of life-as-random-chance should never have been so confidently taught.
It's a reminder to bolster one's memetic defenses against the myriad of ideas continually sneaking into our minds under the guise of "science"... even in the face of scientific evidence to the contrary.
Hopefully as evidence of the complex processes underpinning our evolution make their rounds, we can restore some of our own dignity and purpose as creatures sensing, responding, and learning about the world around us, with a genome that is, very likely, taking note.