does our education system need a makeover

Thank you for opening this topic. I look forward to debating with you. Now, firstly I would like to start by tearing down all that is wrong with your first argument: "Children mug up knowledge from their books and puke it out on tests" There are two things wrong with this argument 1) There is no analysis as to why this is better than the previous educational system. In fact, it may just be a whole lot better than the previous system, as the previous systems used a principle of repetition, which meant learners just constantly repeated information to themselves and then they also spewed it out onto tests. 2) The modernized system utilizes different testing mechanisms that make sure you don't simply spew out the knowledge and make sure you actually apply the knowledge to the test paper. Instead of asking you to work out an answer using that Algebraic formula you learnt in your Algebra class, the test can give you a word problem which utilizes a number of different formulas in order to reach the correct answer. The modern educational system is much better than the previous system. "What in the world our then our children learning?" Our children are learning to apply the knowledge they've learned to the test paper. Even if it is a case of whoever has "better memorising skills" it doesn't make the previous system any better than this one, as the previous system relies mainly on repetition and memorising! At least with this system, you are able to apply your knowledge, even if it is on a small level you still achieve more of a marginal benefit than the previous systems. I will now be moving onto my argument on why bringing back old systems is detrimental to the way society works. Old systems worked before, and they have done their part. But what the proposition fails to realize is that change is the biggest constant of our world, and unfortunately, it is unavoidable. The best you can do is to keep up with the ever changing society around us. The schooling system is no exception to this. New systems have to be put into place to keep up with the new societal norms. We now think Corporal Punishment in schools is illegitimate because our society realized over the years that physical violence towards children caused them to develop a higher chance of experiencing trauma in their lives. The same mechanic applies to the way we teach children. It is now no longer neccesary to teach children about creationism in schools because we have found proof that evolution is a thing that happened in the world, and is much more factual information to be teaching to our future leaders. The old systems teach children either old information or teaches them new information in old fashioned techniques. As we have seen, old systems of education create big problems for the countries that employ them. South Africa, for instance, uses a system of teaching that is rooted in old traditions, and we are seeing constant economic downfall for them, with their currency's value falling ever so much. In much more developed countries with much more developed and modernized educational systems, we see an influx in trade, job oppurtunities, technological advancements, and so on. So in conclusion, the old systems that were put into place many years ago simply won't work for us anymore. We have to look towards the future.