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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There was an advanced math text in college whose preface said -- to paraphrase -- "you will learn this theory, techniques, and methods, and then you will forget all about them, but they will change the way you think about mathematics, and that's the whole point."
Did the book: * Offer any evidence that this claim was true, rather than the sort of flowery thing anyone can offer ahead of a lump of dry text to justify it? * Offer any evidence that these changes would be *positive*? See: https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf …