My two cents.
People learn differently.
Hence there are learning channels.
Some folk learn better visually.
Others learn better auditorily.
Others are tactile or hands on learners.
Sadly auditory learning has gone by the wayside.
Listening skills are no longer valued.
A century ago when colleges were actually higher centers of learning, the best professors were the ones who had spent years perfecting their lectures.
From afar I believe students are given too much busy paper work at too early an age.
Too much focus on visual learning.
I still believe art and music should be a major part of elementary education.
Learning and schooling are two different things.
I remember when John Taylor Gatto’s The Underground History of American Education got quite a bit of discussion on Free Republic.
It’s a good read.
Not only that, some people don’t want to learn some things but voraciously gobble up other things. My teacher battles centered around things like “The Scarlett Letter” vs “The Boy’s Third Book of Radio and Electronics”, or “The Box Car Children” vs “Railway Locomotive Construction”.