Maintaining memorized information only as long as it is required to achieve a real goal is a feature, not a bug. That almost everything taught in school is forgotten shortly after is an indictment of a system determined to embed largely useless info, not of students' character.
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People forget almost everything from school? Shortly afterward, even? Wild.
Rarely tested but consistently found to be the case (at least in traditional schools adhering to a lecture-based format). An example, from: https://www.amazon.com/What-School-Could-Be-Inspiration/dp/069118061X/ …pic.twitter.com/BKmMFZscel
