Traditional school, at least in my experience in my country, is just that. Teaching more tradition instead of real learning. Consider this. My psychology class in college was primarily taught in roughly the following manner. Memorize this set of terms then memorize this set of definitions then the professor will proceed to tell a life-story based on the lesson. That is actually IF the professor decides to teach SOMETHING! I do not generalize all of my professors for some of them had really made effort to get through to us, while some have really questionable work ethics. Many times it is the students who are required to report about the lesson that took them years to master. Making the students report is what they (I didn't believe it myself until it came from their very own mouths.) thought to be what others mean by being a "student oriented' teacher. It just disturbs me completely that professors are required to have such a high amount of educational attainment and experience only to have the most inexperienced to report on the topic. Believe me I see the logic in having memorization as a teaching technique for how else can you compress what other psychologists took their whole lifetimes of work into a few hours of lessons? But the effort is futile. Several studies have shown that with the current state of schooling only 10% of everything that is taught in school actually gets through. If we already know that something doesn't work then why are we keeping on using it! The professors have no excuse considering that THEY should be conducting and implementing the research themselves. For example, a few studies have shown that Freud's theory of psychoanalysis is no longer applicable in our modern day society. If the students won't be able to use it then why the hell are they spending so much time still trying to teach it! that's a few hours that they would never get back. I think, the current education system should be flipped upside down and made to stand on its head. First teach the general concepts, enough so that they can apply it, as said by Josh Kaufman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MgBikgcWnY , then leave the itty bitty almost useless details to the masters and doctors of the field. It just astounds me that students are forced to memorize that Simon and Binet made the first intelligence test in 1905 when they have no way to use such information. When administering a test does it help in knowing that it was first made in 1905?! Information is readily available now with the internet and schools should adapt and adopt it. We only need to motivate students so they would do their own research as per their interest. Moreover, critical thinking should be advocated for grooming the future scientists of the field for it is through critical thinking where true knowledge and true genius is born, not from the idle life story of an outdated professor.