Our public education needs to be changed! Just because you are not good at remembering and repeating, does not mean you aren't intelligent!
By middle school we basically know whether we have academic intelligence or not! High school should be focused on what we are good at! The ones good at academics should continue on that path, but the ones who aren't should be taught more about whatever they are good at!
So when it's time to go out in the world we are all prepared to do whatever it is we are good at!
What does (in my view) school really teach children?
Truth comes from authority
Intelligence is the ability to remember and repeat
Accurate memory and repetition are rewarded
Non-compliance is punished
Conform: intellectually and socially