Education system

Since I was in 8th ,9th standard I felt the study is not up to the mark. The subjects were supposed to be mugged up rather than being understood.... Even by 90 % of the teachers. No single teacher asked us to refer some other books related to topics (except languages). Why there were no questions about the opinions to the matter we used to study? In engineering we used to answer short note on ammeter. The same question last year, last to last year..... and so in current year.No change in the form of question and in the form of answer too. How one can expect to learn?
The question should make the student to think on his own on the subject matter. He should make his own interpretations. Let him understand that he has some way to think. That way might be wrong.. but let him know that its wrong. The important thing is he should think. For example how many of us really know what is the diference between new moon day and the lunar eclipse? Very few really....( I had asked many of my friends) . No one really bothers actually. Because the education that we got did not demand us to know all these things in detail. Just mug things up and score. ....you are intelligent then.....!!
So if the system is like this, let us change ourselves. Start thinking and challenging the things. We get interesting anwers and a sigh of satisfaction.......! :)