Schooling

Some people are good at learning knowledge, others are great at using knowledge and yet others are best at creating new knowledge.

In fact for each person you could rate each of these between 1 and 10 and you would find a great spread of characteristics.

I reckon I am:
Learning: 6/10
Using: 7/10
Creating: 9/10

In my experience schools tend to focus on getting students to learn knowledge primarily because this is deemed to be needed before people can move onto the using or the creating. Also it’s easier to assess.

Counter arguing, I think a reasonable argument could be constructed that knowledge can be learned and used at the same time. Even the creation of knowledge can be practised at a young age.

Schools these days do give more of a nod to using knowledge and creating knowledge than they used to but most of the assessment is still related to the learning of knowledge.

Now that’s all good except that those people who have a strength in using or creating knowledge can get assessed right out of opportunities in areas where they might be the great contributors.

That doesn’t seem to make much sense does it?