$20 says her previous teachers spent so much time on happy-time projects that they never actually got to the Revolution. Or if they did, she got so focused on trying to make the project look nice that she forgot what the project was supposed to teach.
Education culture today says that rote learning in all its forms is evil. Everything must be a poster or group project (where inevitably one good student does ALL the work). Everything HAS to super-entertaining or the kids will just DIE of boredom. They've never been taught HOW to sit down and crack open a book. How to study even when they think it's boring.
So when they get to college, or even a class that can't be turned into one long string of projects, they're shocked when they realize the professor isn't going to stop the class for two weeks for an art project. They just keep moving forward and if ya don't adjust, you fail. Many of them do.
The problem people have is that they don't consider rote learning "true" learning, whatever in the hell that is. They brush it off as meaningless drilling. To that, I have a question.
When sports teams need to learn a new play, do they go to practice and do posters about the play for an hour?
When you want to learn an instrument, do you do a diorama about it?
No! You drill baby drill! Even when it bores you. Even when you'd rather do anything else in the world. You push forward. When teachers are turning everything into an artsy spectacle for the bulletin board to make the class "fun" you aren't teaching the kids that drive.
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