Nowadays, school teaches facts and details in the same way as manual skills were drilled into people. School cannot act otherwise, as it is geared towards this old way of teaching. Students who really try to think about matters do not fit in well with the disciplinary and distractive aspects of school. Don questions the benefits of memorizing such facts and details. E. Learning versus Improvisation DonParagon suggests a shift away from the emphasis on learning and more focus on improvisation.
School drills children like soldiers, under the pretence that they are learning things of value.
This is not what I have in mind when I advocate improvisation. Learning presumes a master-slave relationship between teacher and pupil. Learning is a means to achieve something, it is done in order to do something else that one really wants to do. It all implies that learning is not what one really wants to do. Improvisation can benefit from interaction with others, who are not necessarily more skilled.