The Pedagogy of Uselessness

Pedagogy is the methodology of teaching and instruction, and must be based on an understanding of how humans learn. Tragically the public schools of the nation are pedagogically insane and retarded.

Praxis is the point. Praxis is an educational term for the application of knowledge while learning.

If you can't use it, don't use it, never make any use of it at all — what use is it?

None. It's useless. It cultivates a cognitive style or pattern of retain and regurgitate to only then forget and seldom comprehend in an intelligent way.

Praxis is essential for learning to be effective and rewarding.

It follows a cognitive style or mental model or pattern etc reasonably described as:

Retain
Regurgitate
Forget

…and repeat.

The world of education is plagued by this pedagogy of uselessness, from elementary school through technical courses in universities.

See this short post on algreba and diagnostics for an instance of useless pedagogy.

The pedagogy of uselessness is central in the gap between academia and industry. In the case of the state university's programming course mentioned above, a 3-minute topic is obfuscated so badly that an entire week is spent on it leaving students confused as to "when would you ever use a boolean?". That question would never be asked with a sane, useful pedagogy, as it would, as the case in the first lrn coding lesson, be obvious.