[quote=“SuperiorIntelligence, post:23, topic:72038, full:true”]
Students shouldn’t learn facts? How can they “think for themselves” or “reason creatively” if they don’t know anything?[/quote]
Who ever said students shouldn’t learn facts? The problem is when students only learn facts, such as what happens when teaching to standardized tests becomes the norm. It ceases to be any useful form of education.
Knowing a jumble of facts whose only purpose is to prove that you know those facts is pointless once the test has been taken. What kids need for a real education is the ability to put what they know to work in real-world situations. Knowledge without understanding is not truly knowledge at all.
As Feynman puts it in the link above: “I finally figured out that the students had memorized everything, but they didn’t know what anything meant.” […] “they could pass the examinations, and ‘learn’ all this stuff, and not know anything at all.”
[quote=“SuperiorIntelligence, post:23, topic:72038, full:true”]Maybe if you are Feynman you can transcend the school system but I’m pretty sure that you aren’t. Not even close.
[/quote]I’m guessing that you’re trying to insult me here, but it’s not really that clear since half your sentence is nonsense about “transcend[ing] the school system,” and you don’t ever really make any kind of argument directed at me. All you do is point out the fact that I am not Richard Feynman, but you seem wholly inadequate at your tries to put that knowledge to use.
