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[quote=“TheRizz, post:6, topic:72038, full:true”]
Because of the shift in schools to teaching “facts”, and the almost complete lack of teaching kids how to actually think for themselves and reason things out?
[/quote]Mmm - not sure that is it. Heck, ever see the memes about what kid had to learn around the turn of the century? You are like, wow, who knows all of that? But they focused on a lot of rote memory of facts.
[/quote]From what I know of those turn-of-the-century students, they showed the same problems as children now. They spent all their time memorizing things so they could show that their teacher had taught them things, but they didn’t necessarily know how to do anything with that jumble of facts.
If you want to go to the extreme on memorization, read Richard Feynman’s commentary on the education system of Brazil from Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! This is real-life proof that pushing memorization, standardized tests, and teaching specifically to the tests actually has a net negative effect on an education system.
