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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You forget the facts, sure. But you don't forget the critical thinking skills involved in sorting through and reasoning about those facts. At least I hope you don't. It's a myth that the point of education is about all those "useless" facts.
There's an extant body of research on whether the traditional education system teaches students "critical thinking skills," "how to learn," etc., and the conclusion is a *resounding* no.
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...which really is no wonder. Developing these skills requires great leeway when it comes to self-direction, questioning authority, and being wrong often and for frustrating durations. The process of learning to be a genuinely generative mind is antithetical to standard schooling
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