I've thought for a long time that schools focusing on memorizing facts was a waste of time in today's world where most any fact can be found in a minute or two. We need to teach kids how to think, not what to think.

I love the transformation recommended in this article:

Our focus needs a fundamental shift:

From Instructionism → Constructionism

From Convergent thinking → Divergent thinking

From Information → Imagination

From Content → Skills

If kids thought this way, they would be harder to indoctrinate which is probably why they aren't taught to think this way.

https://medium.com/@connect_75384/the-end-of-education-94f3a39fe97c