The longer I spend apart from formal education as a context, the more alien and intractable it strikes me. Talking with a thoughtful science teacher today, I could only (uselessly) answer his earnest questions with variations on "…but that won't work without an authentic need…"
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I'm sort of amused at my assumed helplessness? I've gone from being very excited about trying to help to now finding the whole situation impossible and aversive. Oops! Maybe I'll find some way to swing back someday…
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Part of what makes this situation so disorienting is that most people automatically situate my current work (memory systems) in formal educational settings, while my interest is in the opposite! AFAICT such contexts are usually quite poorly suited to these systems.
Ah, but that's a motivating and authentic need. That knowledge will actually be recalled later in real world situations (and the knowledge that isn't will probably slowly fade over time if not kept up regularly)
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It feels to me that you are literally grappling with meaning. That is quite existential.
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It’s the psychology of choice. Learning is most powerful when someone wants to learn the thing, needs to learn the thing, and chooses to learn it. I believe schools should offer far more freedom and flexibility to allow (and support) students in choosing their own learning paths