We Need Knowledge and Not Just Skills

i think we should allow students to gather as much knowledge as possible. And give him a chance to synthesize it or reflect on it, tese sold just regurgitate it olya. My older son is an eight year old expert in american history and in baseball. Lots of kids become experts and dinosaurs, or, you know, things that interest them. That's an incredibly motivating force,. When you have, again, a personal passion, of personal interest, and then you become an expert almost in the course of pursuing your interests. i think we could do a lot more encouraging students to do thatand study a lot about what are good ways to learn and what are not