Most of us had a "what" education. We were given some tasks. We were told what to do. And if we did it well, we got an A.
The worse you did your "what," the further down the alphabet your grade went.
These days more than ever, the "how" and the "why" have been left out of education.
Students experience exponential workload increases in middle school and high school.
But they're not taught how to handle that workload increase. They're only expected to produce the what.
And they're not taught why things like six semesters of advanced mathematics are important in the grand scheme of things.
The "what" is easy. It's easy to assign and easy to measure.
"How" starts to dig deeper. But it's harder to teach "how." Because each of our "hows" will be a little different based on how we work best.
And the "why" starts to challenge what we thought made sense altogether. But sometimes we need to challenge what made sense before.
If only so we can make better sense of the future ahead.