Originally Posted by Unregistered

It begins from young, in school. The most efficient way to push a student to get good grades in exams is to just spoonfeed them only the useful information, without wasting time focusing on quality learning, self-directed learning and critical thinking. Just give them model answers to all the possible questions and topics. Who cares about training them to be resourceful? To be self-directed? To search for and curate information? Waste time: not even tested in national exams.

That's how you get people with excellent grades, score government scholarships with model portfolios and interview performances, but are just fking "street dumb" like that when they are finally tested in the working world.