I went to school in the early 1990s! The progressive approach to education was already orthodoxy when my teachers were trained. It has been around a long, long

I went to school in the early 1990s! The progressive approach to education was already orthodoxy when my teachers were trained. It has been around a long, long time and has been the prevailing belief in education for half a century or more. The situation is almost paradoxical: you have generation after generation of people saying that education needs to be reformed to eliminate rote learning and focus on understanding concepts, and where did they learn this orthodoxy? In school, from their teachers. I suspect it has something to do with how teenagers experience school. No matter the pedagogical approach, if kids are distracted with their social lives and normal adolescent stuff, they experience any attempt to teach them as dry and rote.