Students are commonly given an outline of all data that they might collect, organized by “social history,” “previous illness,” and so on, suggesting that medical diagnosis is a process of collecting data in a fixed order. The results is that students sometimes collect information by rote, without thinking about hypotheses at all!
This is the excerpt from the “Nature of Expertise” book I’m reading.
This example shows how educational system is broken. The first two things EVERY educational system should do are:
In software development people often learn new technologies like CSS, RoR, Java, etc., without fundamental knowledge of the subject. As a result, they have impressive list of technologies in CV, but fail to write a simple algorithm or explain why this particular solution is best to this particular problem.