When I was in high school my teachers pushed hard to teach me the process and how to learn and examine things, how to read through the question for little clues and how to think, how to double check your work, and that no answer is easy enough (I know alot of people who, on a test, would think an answer was wrong because it was too easy too solve so they'd try something else.), they didn't much care about the actual answer, in my math class each question was out of 5, you got 4 marks for showing the process and how you did it (right or wrong) and only 1 mark if you got the answer right.
It was rather refreshing and I caught on quicker, and I've found use for it now that I'm done high school and in the working world as it has changed my way of thinking, and if I do decide to go into futher schooling I'm sure I'll be better off with what I learned, however, not all schools are like this and I know alot of kids who are "book smart" and flunked out of post secondary after 1 year.
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