I'm not encouraging what I listed above. Quite the contrary, I find it to be awful. I don't learn through memorization. I learn programming well, chemistry well

I'm not encouraging what I listed above. Quite the contrary, I find it to be awful. I don't learn through memorization. I learn programming well, chemistry well, math well. I can't remember or "learn" history for the life of me. At best, I might retain major concepts if I can relate them to me very personally, but even then it's usually very vague. My comment was meant as critical not as praise for the current system. I think it's horribly ineffective as you note