Why is the idea of education so strongly tied to a structured and systematic way of learning?
Simple. Historically, organized education arose to meet the need for slightly better workers in the factories of the industrial revolution. They were organized to produce mass-educated drones who were replaceable parts in a factory that ran 7 days a week 18 hours a day.
The only variation is that, since WW II they have also served as daycare - babysitting services so that more adults could be freed into the workplace to earn disposable income for the corporations to profit by and to pay taxes for govts to piss away.
Do other teaching styles have equal value?Equal? Tough question, - for whom? The "system" was never intended to benefit the individual student, only the corporations, the govts and the parents.A child-centered, open-learning situation organized to foster creativity and to stimulate critical thinking would not serve the state - who need drones in order to govern even half-assedly, nor the corporations who need ignorant wage-earners to exploit for profit.
Intelligent, critical thinkers who can create their own futures would be the government's worst nightmare.
To paraphrase Bernard De Mandeville, C1725, "To govern effectively, the mass of people must be kept poor and ignorant.'
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