Education is content based

<p>Most educational programs focus on the content that must be transmitted to students. For example, by establishing the minimum number of math topics that a student should master after completing each year. </p> <p>Many people keep discussing about <em>content</em>, for example <a class="wikilink" href="/replacing_analysis_with_statistics/">replacing analysis with statistics</a> in math classes, but few discuss <a class="wikilink" href="/why_we_teach_science_in_school/">why we teach science in school</a>. Efforts, such as Khan Academy, focus on delivering <em>content</em> to students, but not on how to improve the method of teaching. </p> <p>Establishing minimum content sounds like a quantifiable way of judging performance (see: <a class="wikilink" href="/measuring_performance_using_single_criteria/">measuring performance using single criteria</a>), but my open question is whether <a class="wikilink" href="/science_education_should_be_method-oriented/">science education should be method-oriented</a> instead of content-based.</p>