Quote:No it's just your inability to understand.  Studying professors is harder than studying the course material, and I did both.  When I said, "Get straight A's and learn nothing", did you really think that meant literally, "learn nothing"?  I learned the course material, learned the professor, and learned how to be successful as measured by the grading system. 

 

But learning is much more than stroking the ego of your teacher and much more than repeating what you are told.  I've said before I couldn't really learn about the world until I unlearned much of what I already knew.  A formal education is a form of indoctrination.
  How can anything new be learned or discovered if one only parrots the textbooks?

 

Exactly my point.

 

Put the parts in bold (black) together and that's exactly what is wrong with our education system.  From grade school up through college people are indoctrinated taught to learn the "correct answer".  Questioning how the answer is the "correct answer" is not allowed.

 

One of my favorite clips from Steve Wozniak describes it better than I can.  It's a 3 minute clip, but it's relevant regarding the whole education system.

 

That leads to the part in red.  It happens from the grade school level up to and including college level.

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