Traditional education practices from kindergarten through medical school produce students who are disenchanted and bored with their education. They are faced with a vast amount of information to memorize much of which seems irrelevant to their future as it exists outside of school. They forget much of what they learned and what is remembered cannot be applied to the problems and tasks they later face.
Many students are unable to reason effectively.
Following graduation many are unable to assume responsibility for their own education. They also seem poorly equipped to work with others in collaborative team situations. In secondary education these bored, undermotivated students demonstrate disruptive behavior in class and truancy. With the more motivated students, conventional educational approaches lead them to view education in school as a right of passage, an imposed set of hurdles with little relevance to the real world. These problems with conventional education have been revealed by studies in medical education.