[brainwipe]

Then I would ask anyone to keep building on knowledge rather than training for an arbitrary benchmark. Filling your short-term memory with knowledge to be then dumped straight after will get you a good exam mark but doesn't mean you have anything close to a solid grasp. Most schools (in the UK in particular) optimise for grade outcome because that's how they are judged, that's not the same thing as being good at a task.

[dyauspitr]

It kind of is. I’m a firm believer in that knowledge comes from doing. Even the trades use exams. If you want to become a welder, you have to weld five particular welds, then get graded. There’s no better way to gauge someone’s proficiency at something while also letting that person find out what their weaknesses are.