My college professors would often say that you could memorize the entire Encyclopedia Britannica and you’d be worth about a thousand dollars (what it cost in those days). What they were interested in was if you understood the concepts of what they were teaching.
Where schools fall really short these days is in teaching kids how to think. Regurgitating facts to achieve a certain score on a standardized test, is no demonstration of an education. If all they have done is filled the kids heads with facts without teaching them what to do with them, they’ve wasted everybody’s time and money.
And they can’t even do that right either. Kids today know next to nothing. They can hardly read and barely calculate.
Some education.
I am on the AP email list and the tests are biased nonsense, at least in the social sciences.
The number of teachers wholly ignorant of basic facts and the level of leftist bias are incredible. Our best and brightest are intentionally being taught wrong.
They’re being “taught to the test”. That parents can’t or won’t see this in general is shocking.
BTW For a terrific background on the Am. Rev. try Paul Revere’s Ride by David Hackett Fischer. It’s great and my kids love it.