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In school, There are right answers. Copying from a reference work with known solutions is forbidden. Copying from someone else is forbidden. Asking someone who knows is forbidden. Working with others is often forbidden. Testing out the answer against reality is forbidden or impractical. You are expected to find the right answer by rooting around in your own head.
It would be difficult to find more crippling and maladaptive habits to instill in a mind that wanted to deal with reality.
The pendulum seems to swing between the extremes of teaching that there are always right answers or never right answers. It also varies from place to place.
The swing of that pendulum always misses what's important in the real world - getting a better answer. Or, for some shameless pandering, getting lesswrong.