It really sparked a realization in me when you discussed the role of memorization in our education system, and how it is more or less completely obsolete. Simply put, there is no goal in creating recall machines in a society that already possesses such devices (we call them computers) that can do it for a fraction of the cost.

No, what we need is the people to design the computers, to innovate and push the frontier between us and the unknown further and further out. we already have wealths of knowledge at our fingertips; let's dedicate our lives and our educations to discovering some more.