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Let me point out two flaws in the premise of this discussion:
1- Specializing in your strengths is great. But you won't find out what your strengths are until you try out several things. Hence the value of a well rounded education early on.
2- If early on education is more well rounded, nowadays starting in high school people are put in specific tracks. That is, if people value a well rounded education more nowadays, it is simply because it is much rarer. Starting in high school students are picking AP classes to start to specialize in certain areas. At the college and post graduate level, then, things are ultra specialized. I have a PhD, but I am as ignorant as anyone about many parts of my specific discipline because my training was so specialized.
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