You can't teach somebody to learn in a generic manner. However, you can teach even several subjects that will be useful everday that approach a range of ways to

You can't teach somebody to learn in a generic manner. However, you can teach even several subjects that will be useful everday that approach a range of ways to learn, building the foundation required for the person to "learn to learn" by him or herself. This is what we are supposed to do. This is not, however, what we do in school. School is now doing : - baby sitting - killing creativity and autonomy - blending all kids into on uniform bowl - giving them examples on how to avoid admiting your are wrong, using fear, cheating, power abuse, bad food, fact distorsion, memorizing and forgetting... - ranking kids against each others according to arbitrary yet not objective metrics - teaching kids to pass, and fit a disfonctional system, at all cost, or be ashamed I have been a student to 11 schools due to my father moving a lot for his work, from the worst in the hood to the best private ones. None of them prepared me for my life. Most of the kids that went in there came out without required basic skills, and yet passed. The most expensive ones are the less evil, so money is an issue.