I think it shows and also maybe proves that education in the UK has been dumbed down to such an extent that answering a question is more important than questioning the answer.
As soon as schools were judged on performance and league tables ffs, they have no choice but to turn out drones who have been educated beyond their intelligence. It is more important to get three A* at A-Level than actually understand what they are learning. Blair started this with his ridiculous push to get so many kids into Universities. There is nothing wrong with a university education by the way, but some kids are unsuited to University education and would be better off at what were the old technical colleges, learning a trade rather than learning the dates that King whosoever the enth married some slapper from Bermondsey and fathered a sprog called Bob.
If your education becomes learning by rote, being able to recite the third act of Hamlet word by word in Shakespearian English or naming every concubine of King Bert the first of Bratislava then you know facts or tracts, it does not mean you know the relevance of those facts or tracts. That in my mind opens a person up to acceptance of "facts" or "tracts" without ever questioning them or forming an opinion of them. The person becomes a drone who can be easily misled and in my opinion has also contributed to the rise in fake news being accepted as true, because the drone has never learnt how to question the news or interpret the "facts"
I think the best teacher i had at secondary school, where by the way I failed badly, actually opened my mind by doing something very simple. He asked "why do think that?" it made me question why i thought the way I did, it made me want to understand why I thought the way I did and it made me challenge myself on why i thought the way I did.
