> Mostly we aren't educating young children. Rather, they are the recipients of memes Guided repetition is a common educational tool. I guess you can call tha

> Mostly we aren't educating young children. Rather, they are the recipients of memes Guided repetition is a common educational tool. I guess you can call that a "meme" if you want, but that doesn't make it "not education". > By contrast, arithmetic is intentionally and exhaustively taught, yet most adults cannot perform it. In countries where arithmetic is taught, adults are certainly capable of performing basic arithmetic. I have yet to meet a literate adult who couldn't compute some arbitrary sum or solve a multiplication problem. In fact, the only counter-examples I've discovered are that a lot of people have problems remembering order of operations. But that's more about language/notation than arithmetic -- if you put the parens in, they'll give you the correct answer. > It has been speculated that if we tried to educate children how to walk and how to talk then they wouldn't succeed at either! I was taught to talk. Some of the other children in my class were deaf, and even they eventually learned how to talk (albeit not as well as you or me). I assure you, they weren't "meme'ing". There was a lot of rather complex guiding that looks a lot like what I imagine you call "education". >> But you cannot reset a human being. > See Tom Scott's face around 3:30 That's... pretty weak evidence. And also a weird definition of "reset". Presumably, he still knows his name is Tom, his mother's phone number, and can write an essay or add numbers together...