we are at that time of the year when the "it's in the syllabus" crowd are sending email asking how to do the things in the "course set up guide" they all received a week ago.
In cultures with primary orality, formal education is offered through apprenticeships. Through these educational systems, young people learn the skills, knowledge, activities, and interactions that are necessary for participation in complex endeavors.
The most flawed educational proposals proceed from the position that education is an engineering problem, and thus we can build educational systems can be built to create systems that produce measurable achievement reliably.
Humans are learners. Humans are also the products of their environments, and once something from the environment is learned it is very difficult to unlearn it.