Students are not trained to think anymore
My husband is an upper school math teacher and he has noticed his students just do not even try to think and has come to the conclusion they have not been trained to think over their years in education.
Thinking, logic, reasoning are indeed skills that need to be oiled consistently in order to continue its effectiveness.
Kids think that they’re just trying to figure out numbers and copying and pasting answers. It’s more than that. It’s an expansion of the mind to work out what it’s capable of so one can take gratification in their own work and life later on.
His thoughts are going back to classical education and throwing out all this new garbage curriculum and starting from the rudiments. Of course there are many factors of the degrading minds in this society, but for the most part, he just wants his students to at least TRY instead of expecting a spoon-fed, convenient answer.