Eide Neurolearning Blog: Getting All A's, But Flunking Life?

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The results certainly raise warning flags about trends in education and recreation. Children are less likely to have hands-on or direct experience play or observation, and standardized testing could shift the focus of curricula to semantic knowledge or rote learning. That may be good for answering questions that mankind has already found the answers to, but poor for developing novel questions or solving problems that may not yet exist.