information quickly overload and forgetting it all after an exam, etc.
Your post describes to the letter what I remember about my school experience except for that back then life was technologically primitive and politically stifling.
The good thing was that it had no negative effect on us since we, as opposed to the woke boot-licking morons today, knew who the enemy was. If any, we grew up a lot more cynical and a lot less naive than the smartphone and Facebook addicts today.