Einstein reckoned that if he had an hour to solve a problem and his life depended on it, he’d spend the first fifty-five minutes making sure he was answering the right question.

To create good workers, education systems put a premium on compliancy and rote memorization of basic knowledge—excellent qualities in an industrial worker.

Picasso said,

'Computers are useless -- they only give you answers.'

Somehow, we've defined the goal of schooling as enabling you to have more 'right answers than the person next to you. And we penalize incorrect answers. And we do this at a pace-especially now, in this highly focused test-prep universe-where we don't have time for extraneous ques...