Phillip and Jenny
I think we believe ourselves confined to a single model of knowledge transfer but education is only a cultural construct with limitations that have set themselves into the procedure of it.
Humans are quite adept at understanding the world but my experience is they are held by the institutions they construct around themselves to underperform in the name of sustaining order. Protecting their protector.
Vocations that seem to be breaking away from the security of the one learning model (whatever that is) are the active ones like the military, medicine, trades. I wonder if encountering the world as it is rather than as it is modeled to be forces us to realize a wider spectrum of working strategies? Or based on immediate need to try options in the raw rather than only those known to work because we haven't the time to "normalize" the situation and have to think on the fly?
Some things just jump out at us and we adapt. We seem to be wired for this. I think it's more a case of determining why we become stuck in certain ways of doing things.