For music, the formal curriculum does involve memorizing songs and scales and whatnot. The problem is that the best way to start a subject is to fuck around wit

For music, the formal curriculum does involve memorizing songs and scales and whatnot. The problem is that the best way to start a subject is to fuck around with it (playing random songs you like on your guitar, drawing cool shapes and noticing patterns in them, etc), but our schools are ill equipped for such things, and enabling this style is difficult and incredibly expensive.