Today I've just started "The New Cool", for the 6th time, and reading a quote from Woodie Flowers made me rethink the entire schooling process, and the FIRST process. The exact quote (below) explains how in schools we are "training" students, and in FIRST, we are "educating" students.

"Training and education are very different. Training is a commodity. Education is the part that confers comparative advantage. Much of what we call engineering education is in fact training and poorly done. Learning calculus is training. Learning to think using calculus is education; learning spelling and grammar is training. Learning to communicate is education; learning a CAD (computer-aided design) program is training. Learning to design is a much more complex, sophisticated thing; learning the parts is training. Learning from synthesis and whole is education. It's not clean. The boundary is clearly fuzzy. Once you could be trained to be a professional if you knew things, that was enough, but information is ubiquitous, you can't have an advantage in society because you know something."

Dr. Flowers, I couldn't have said it better. Obviously, our current school system has us "learn" things, while systems such as FIRST have us "educated".