I was just thinking about this sort of thing today. Current educational practices are to teach children, instead of, say, math -- rather "how to solve problems." Critical thinking. Lots of buzzwords like that. This leads to a lot of children who can't do math. I'm not sure if any of them can solve problems, as it were, but they certainly can't fucking solve math problems anymore -- I see it every damn day when I volunteer. If you can't tell I think this is stupid and modern educational practices are a waste of time and that we can almost always learn more on our own and I guess I just needed a brief space to rant. That entire day of teaching kids to search for truth or whatever could have been boiled down into one sentence, "the earth revolves around the sun," and then they could have moved on to learning things that actually could use a bit of sought truth, as it were, and that would've been great and meaningful.