We are told to spew out our fact filled brains in order to make the all important grade. Come exam time, class becomes one big synchronized upchuck. Facts flying left and right, spurting out haphazardly onto exam papers. The dominant system of education is simply, a bulimic orgy of knowledge. Many a study has shown students forget much of what they learn in class.
Many data are obsolete by the time it reaches textbooks.
Many professors' lectures are redundant summaries of the textbook. The importance of critical thinking in education has been forgotten somewhere. They like the predictability. They like not having to think. But educational apathy comes from habits well-tuned from as early as elementary school.