Read The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America by Charlotte Iserbyt

It’s amazing stuff.

I was gifted enough to get into a school here rgr shifted from “kill & drill” teaching that focused on memorization to an applied model where we had to interview people that were present at events and build things for our grades. The teachers didn’t give a crap about our opinions or takes - they wanted us to court the information and push the ball forward documenting what people really knew.