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Knowledge cannot be taught it must be inferred.

• TeMPOraL 11y ago
  Exactly. Knowledge and insight is what you get when you take the facts you've been taught (or learned yourself) and internalize them. Schools nowadays focus too much on the first at the cost of the second, because former is easily testable and the latter takes time.
  • mhuffman 11y ago
    One of the goals of Common Core was to fix that situation ... but then, you know, teaching to the test kind of defeated it.
    • analog31 11y ago
      Interestingly enough, when the schools in my locale started talking about Common Core, I decided to look it up. I found that one or more states had published complete curriculum guides written around CC, and since I like math, I looked through the math curricula. My impression is that the CC curriculum (neglecting variations that I haven't seen) is so ostentatiously mainstream, that I can't fathom how it became controversial, except that people mistakenly associate it with standardized testing.