Education is meant to be an active open-ended process of exploration and discovery.

"Education isn't something that happens to children. It's not a pre-packaged sequence of out-of-context skills and information and it's certainly not something that schools should be forcing large groups of age-segregated children to passively absorb at exactly the same time and in exactly the same way. All the while resorting to a whole bunch of external rewards and punishments to get them to do it. What education is meant to be is an active open-ended process of exploration and discovery. It's one that children are entirely capable of directing themselves.."

~Chris Mercogliano~

TED Talk: The Self-Organizing Child
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0fg73WnLWQ