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Wow, some intriguing discussion here.
I think the focus on education is wrong. I believe the focus should be to create confident, creative, lifelong learners with excellent research, work habits and good social skills and a balanced approach to life and career.
We no longer teach our children to chip hand axes out of flint so perhaps teaching 16th century playwrights, no matter how wonderful their writing was, is also something to be set aside.
Certainly a course on important writers in English history would include him, but not something everyone needs to learn about.
I would rather see school children learn how to write, direct, act in and produce their own play for the web. These creative skills are ones that they can use in their future careers.
Creative, adaptable people are more successful and happy than "well-educated" people who do not continue to learn and adapt once they have finished their formal schooling.
Creative adaptable people can always look up or research any topic and can adapt to changing circumstances. These are the people who create businesses when they are laid off and the authors who self publish when old, staid publishing houses turn up their nose at their manuscripts.
These are the people who change the world. And many of them will find Shakespeare because curiosity is one of these success traits.
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