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Old 09-28-2007, 07:21 PM  
kane
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Originally Posted by Equinox View Post
General schooling definitely does not teach, develop or encourage individual out-of-the-box thinking. It's mostly all about brainless memorization and applying preset concepts and ideas. As it was already mentioned, schools create good employees.
That is true. I remember at least half of my classes in high school were simply us reading a chapter in the book, taking notes on it and then taking a test on it. I'm sure I learned things, but mostly I just memorized and retained knowledge until I took the test. The classes that I really learned a lot in were the ones where we had a lot of discussion and the teacher really went into the material in depth.
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