Has Western education gained anything worthwhile from jettisoning rote-learning? Warren Reed offers a cautionary lesson from the timeless East.For those Australians lucky enough to have friends in their 80s or 90s, especially those with all their faculties, there’s a lot to be observed and learnt about how our education system has changed. And not for the better.My oldest friend is 98 and was born and brought up well away from Australia’s big coastal cities. He enrolled at Sydney University…
