I agree with you, @paul.atreides. There is plenty that is different than it was in those earlier days of one room schools and a teacher for all ages and unfortunately, much of it has not increased learning, reasoning or knowledge, but more or less counteracted them.

I agree. The best way to learn is to do, and teaching someone else what you know is definitely the best way I've found to learn.

I'm 53 in a couple of months. I went to a four room elementary school up the hill from where we lived until we moved over Christmas break in 1974 to the 'city" and a much larger school. I learned a lot those first three and a half years. After that, it was more about the personalities and the cliques.

I really like what you did here with the freewrite prompt. And I couldn't agree more with your contrasting of old school versus now.