“The student-victim is first stunned and paralyzed by an onslaught of pointless definitions, propositions, and notations, and is then slowly and painstakingly weaned away from any natural curiosity or intuition about shapes and their patterns by a systematic indoctrination into the stilted language and artificial format of so-called “formal geometric proof.” Paul Lockhart, A Mathematican’s Lament

Brevity is important, but in school you’re made to fill x pages.

Some germans are better at native english speaker at using their/they’re/there right — that’s easy to test — but can’t think in english.

Art & Music

Instead of being free to create — to draw, to play with a digital audio workstation — you’re forced to copy stuff others created and to learn their birth dates.

Science

Rote knowledge instead of understanding. (You could answer any exam question, if you had a computer. What does that tell you?)

Civics, Social Science, Economics

It’s widely accepted that every government we don’t like uses schools to indoctrinate children. Why assume that our own is different?