Comment Re:It will .... (Score 1) 478
...As opposed to understanding how things work but not being able to receite a bunch of facts. Do you want the doctor, for example, that can recite loads and loads of random facts? Or do you want the doctor who can't do that but knows how to look it up, and can actually give you good care, rather than care that was terrific 10 years ago? Thank you.
Rote memorization is dead. That is what people don't seem to understand. We can find information in a few seconds that earlier required hours in a library. We need to concentrate on HOW people think rather than memorization. I obviously can't do it, but I wish I could have a school of kids whom I taught HOW to think versus your school of kids who just memorize things. Unfortunately, the disgusting, pathetic, achronistic way that we do testing penalizes people who have good reasoning skills, and rewards those who can do nothing more than recite a book.