In your reading, it's important to distinguish between a school and a business setting. Teaching someone how to do a job or do a job better is much different than what happens in a school setting. In fact, a lot of theories and models focus on knowledge acquistion in a school setting which is way down the list of importance on the job. In business it's more important what you can do that what you know.

It goes with the expression, if you're so smart why aren't you rich?

Fair point - sadly too much of schooling focuses on acquiring as much information as possible so that it can be dutifully regurgitated at exam time......perhaps growing demands in different industries for certification programs backed up by written exams are keeping the didactic models of teaching/training alive and well?

...smart and rich? What about the difference between know what and know how? Schools (and to some extent parents) are pre-occupied with the former while it's normally the latter which drives business forward.

Also, how we learn is broadly the same, how we are taught, trained, guided itd hopefully differs as we leave formal education behind. After all we are in the age of lifelong learning rather than lifelong training!

Lifelong training is critical if your in a profession that require maintaining and upgrading skills. I would hope physicians, pilots and baseball players would continue to train. A well educated surgeon doesn't mean the surgeon will have a steady hand.

...and neither does lifelong training guarantee much unless there is lifelong learning!

Both are often needed, yet which is needed most: to be committed to learning or committed to training?