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I think your elementary education experience was very similar to mine. I remember learning or memorizing important pieces of information, that were supposed to be beneficial later in life. Despite memorizing the position of all fifty states in the union, I still can not travel from Philadelphia to Boston, by car, without getting terribly lost. Perhaps a more effective pedagogy would have involved teaching map reading and navigation, instead of rote memorization of certain places.

I think that a better elementary education would have included more tools for making sense of myself and my environment. Interpretation is a task that is performed by people every moment every day. It might not be forgotten so easily because it would actually be constructuve and informative!