Which is why hands-on learning combined with source material is best practice for children, imo. Taking several disks and demonstrating that the thicknesses dou

Which is why hands-on learning combined with source material is best practice for children, imo. Taking several disks and demonstrating that the thicknesses double but diameter is the same, letting the kids try hitting them and noting the differences in tone. Asking the children "why do you think these sound different?" without telling them why first, letting them explore it themselves, gently correcting them along the way. Then pulling out another example and encouraging them to apply the same logic to the new example. No, instead for the most part, children _still_ get what we all had: memorise these facts without explanation and fill out the blank space on the exam where the memorised words get you points. Most of our entire schooling is just an exercise in memorisation, not in thought and it's sad.