In public schools you get graded on how obedient you are not on how intelligent you are.

In jiu-jitsu I constantly ask my teacher to explain their reasoning on what they are teaching, and why it's important, and I challenge them on their reasoning to try to experiment with them on ways to prove them wrong or find different methods to accomplishing the task in a more efficient process and they love it because it shows that I am engaged and not only will it better my understanding but it will help them to solidify their reasoning or it will allow them to modify their understanding and experiment with other ideas.

In public school whenever I question anything any teacher says, whether it's history, math, science, well than I'm just being difficult and I should shut up and listen from the know it all teachers, because this is how they were taught and therefore it's right and everything else is wrong.