[chairmansteve]

My entire (non American) education career was exam based. The exams were tightly supervised, no books etc. Every thing had to be memorised. Cheating was impossible.

Funny thing is, memorising something is a big help to understanding it.

In that system, AI is a very useful tool. AFAIK, this is how they still do it in many Asian countries.

It worked pretty well. Produced a lot of educated people.

[cal_dent]

Yes, same. We also had oral exams for particular subjects where you essentially had a discussion with a teacher or panel of teachers on a particular topic. All of that will eventually come back. I don't see how that doesnt come back as a normal thing in schools

[weregiraffe]

What, you never went for a bathroom break and perused the slick in your pocket while there?

[tintor]

... memorising something is a big help to understanding it.

Not if you overfit the training set.