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Sorry if this is going to sound harsh, this is certainly not my intention, but I wonder how you got from my general point about Education to your comment about

• Nursie 13y ago
  You seem to have formed the conclusion that all schooling is worthless parrot-fashion recitation and cramming knowledge into the students' heads without any understanding. My assumption is that this is your experience of your own schooling, and possibly that of your experience of your childrens' schools. It's not how my education went, and I was taught subjects, but I was taught to understand them and to approach them all in rather different ways. The subjects are very relevant. Languages bed down better in younger minds. Scientific understanding is different from mathematical understanding and different again from historical understanding. So I repeat, I'm sorry if you felt your schooling was terrible, if you felt you were being asked to cram worthless knowledge into your head, that's not how it went for all of us.