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Did my grandfather and I attend the same school?
What is school for anyway? All that precious time we spend learning things we often forget in a couple of days. When my parents ask me what we did in school and I tell them “nothing”, I am not kidding with them – I have probably already forgotten by then. I am lucky to have had the opportunity to spend many years learning about Pythagoras’ theorem, cell structure or some famous battle, as they help me a lot in life. In reality, I can’t remember the last time I or my parents even mentioned them. Instead of teaching us to remember the “dots”, shouldn’t school teach us how to connect them? I have...