Thanks for the write-up.
Our military pilots still have to do wrote stand-ups but they are also somehow educated to think. I don’t really know how the blend of Rote memorization they have to do and education to think is accomplished. I know their training is intense and comes through a fire hose.
I listened to a lecture by Gen. Krulak the other night. He was telling his story and said, “I was training and educating Marines in San Diego’ [before my second tour to Vietnam]. It struck me odd and he elaborated as if anticipating my question. Training is what we do to prepare people for what we know will happen. Education is what we do to prepare people for what we don’t know or can’t predict will happen. Put another way for me, Training teaches people to do without thinking much or any; Education teaches people to think.
I do a bit of adult education. I find students often only want to be told what to do. They are uncomfortable when they are made to think. Our education system has produced this now. Kids all pass because they are trained to take the tests and not educated to think.
Conversely, look at all the US legislators with Ivy League degrees (most of them), then think about what how they vote and what they believe in. Education to me is failing. It really isn’t worth the expense today.