Am french, and can tell you that the only reason I managed to get up to the baccalaureate was an iPod Touch I had on me at every, single, exam I ever took since

Am french, and can tell you that the only reason I managed to get up to the baccalaureate was an iPod Touch I had on me at every, single, exam I ever took since I was about 10. I managed to pass the baccalaureate entirely because of a TI Nspire on which I preloaded every single possible program I could need ever for the exams, maths, biology, physics and chemistry. Formulas, step by step solving and all the jazz. They banned in the year after I passed. The reason is simple. I have never been able to memorize anything or learn anything "by heart" in my entire life. I recently discovered that this is because I am dyslexic. The problem with that is that I spent my entire life in the french education system being treated as if I was lazy, dumb and whatnot. The amount of stress I endured and the amount of meetings I had with profs and principals all over my "motivation" and why my work level is "never constant". I'm actually so mad over this if I saw some of these people in the street I would probably punch them in the face and run away. I keep saying this over and over again, but in a world where knowledge is at the tip of your fingers, why in the name of f#ck do we still actually need to learn anything. Knowledge is not sufficient itself, you need practice, and not simply "do exercises and you'll get it". I'm talking about real world applications, something that is completely inexistent in the current system. We don't go to school to learn what we want to do later in life, we go to school to go to school, much like in America you go to prison because the prison wants its money per head. So maybe before they crack down on "cheating" and whatnot, maybe they should take a long look at themselves. The devices they fight so hard to ban are (for me) actually the way of the future in terms of education, even if the kids using it don't have the maturity to know they should not be playing Candy Crush, it's not as if the current system mattered in any way for their future anyways, except if they were born to fit in it. I recommend an article that was posted recently "College is Dying, Design Your Own Education.". It resonated so hard with me and every single flaw it points out is present in the french education system.