I am GenX and my entire high school experience was based on memorizing things for tests. I happen to be naturally good at memorizing things at least for short periods of time so I did well. The problem was the teachers essentially taught the test so I didn’t actually learn anything.

Compare that to doing theatre and I memorized well and received an education of how to deliver the lines I memorized.

We had an exchange student from Norway and we was shocked by multiple choice. He said back home he was an average student and in America was in honor society.

I’ve learned and retained more from watching videos online than I ever did in school.