There’s a sickness in today’s American/western culture related to learning / education: against practice. Teachers design all sorts of activities to facilitate

There’s a sickness in today’s American/western culture related to learning / education: against practice. Teachers design all sorts of activities to facilitate student learning, but they are disgusted to do the most important thing for early learners: repetitive practice. When students start to learn algebra, many of them can’t even do two digits addition/subtraction by hand. Not to mention to do calculations in the head. Why learning to do basic calculations/numerical processes fast is important? Basic psychology: reducing cognitive load in thinking through complex processes. Repetitive practice is the building block of learning everything. Of course there’s more in learning psychology, but that’s off topic.