Spend more time but not doing busy work. Some schools assign way too much of what is basically memorization, producing students who are very good at memorizing

Spend more time but not doing busy work. Some schools assign way too much of what is basically memorization, producing students who are very good at memorizing things and not very good at applying them. Also, students need breaks. “Cram schools” which simply assign too much work and put too much pressure, produce anxious students without emotional skills who burn out and in some cases also turn to be bad at real-world tasks (because they spend all their time learning how to get good grades, taking shortcuts and not “learning” the material). But a long school day full of sports, student bonding, interesting hands-on or “applied” work, and the boring essentials, seems like it would produce better students.