Today's post, Two More Things to Unlearn from School, was originally published on 12 July 2007. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):

School encourages two bad habits of thought: (1) equating "knowledge" with the ability to parrot back answers that the teacher expects; and (2) assuming that authorities are perfectly reliable. The first happens because students don't have enough time to digest what they learn. The second happens especially in fields like physics because students are so often just handed the right answer.

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