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High-Class Teaching, Low-Class Transfer: A Learnography Analysis of the Emperor’s New Clothes Analogy

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Default education is dominated by teaching, instruction, and classroom listening. Conventional education is often praised for its high-class performance. Teachers deliver topics and lessons with excellent verbal explanation, visual presentation, and cognitive engagement. Yet, beneath this polished surface lies a silent crisis — knowledge transfer does not occur effectively in this system. Learners attend classes, watch lectures, and listen to explanations, but the actual construction of brainpage maps and modules – the real neural architecture of scholar's learning – remains thin or absent. This educational phenomenon can be understood through a powerful analogy: the ancient story of the Swindlers in “The Emperor’s New Clothes”. In the tale, the emperor believed he wore magnificent and magical garments, while in truth he was wearing nothing. Everyone praised the clothes because social pressure made them afraid to admit the truth. Similarly, in default education, society applauds te...