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Our education system is about teaching and less of learning

By Kap Kirwok

Here is a truism that we all take for granted: The most important learning in life happens outside the classroom. Most of what we know as adults we learned it informally. The practical consequence of this — the corollary — is that, in the world outside the classroom, most of what we learned through the formal education system is not useful.

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