Well done, AndyG. The whole difference between drawing out and pushing in reflects on the crucial flaws in an "educational" system whose roots are in the middle ages. Pushing facts in and demanding they be parroted back without the addition of independent thought is a great model for making an authoritarian hierarchy like a large international church, for example, where original thought would be unwelcome but you need administrators who can read and write to keep things going.

For genuine education, I much prefer the original academia -- the Socratic discourse -- to the "scholastic" approach. It brings out minds instead of second-hand data.

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