School spends a long time “wasting” our time but learning things is a great way to learn how to interpret information and make actual informed decisions
School spends a long time “wasting” our time but learning things is a great way to learn how to interpret information and make actual informed decisions
In the US it varies widely. I was lucky to grow up in a small city with a university so we had some solid teachers who mostly made it clear that the goal of public education was to learn how to learn and think critically, including questioning authority.
I know quite a few people from rural towns the same state who were taught everything by route memorization and to obey authority.
And my college/university experience was that even those instructors were as bad or worse than grade/high school teachers - they lacked curiosity and only taught how to appease the bureaucracy.