When specific knowledge is taught, it’s through apprenticeships, not schools.
The knowledge we get by tinkering, via trial and error, experience, and the workings of time, in other words, contact with the earth, is vastly superior to that obtained through reasoning, something self-serving institutions have been very busy hiding from us.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Specific knowledge cannot be taught, but it can be learned.