I wouldn't say schools actively "lie" to their students, but I agree that the focus is on exams, and exams do not test how well you know the subject, they test how good your memory is.
A maths genius could easily fail a maths exam if they didn't have the equations in front of them. I can relate to this in programming. We are expected at university to remember every single thing about programming, right down to the specific library locations that Java uses, and the exact methods each object has. In a job, we would simply look up the API. Exams are almost useless at determining how good students are.
A maths genius could easily fail a maths exam if they didn't have the equations in front of them. I can relate to this in programming. We are expected at university to remember every single thing about programming, right down to the specific library locations that Java uses, and the exact methods each object has. In a job, we would simply look up the API. Exams are almost useless at determining how good students are.
