Reply #86: I'd say that part of a solid educational plan includes teaching the kids how...

[Dr Morbius]

...to educate themselves further. I am 48. I graduated high school at 18. I did not go to college. And yet I am considerably more educated than a high-school graduate because I've educated myself. America's students today are not necessarily being taught this, but it's the key. Teach them how to think and teach them how to learn; everything else is largely secondary.

They can't teach everything. A lifetime is not enough to amass all the knowledge there is in any given field, let alone 180 days a year, six or seven hours a day. It's more important to give the kids the skills than to try to teach them everything, I believe.