America continues to hold onto an educational system designed to maximize efficiency in learning in the year 1950. Let it go.
In the previous era of education, you compensated for a lack of access to information through memorization. In the Internet age, knowing how to obtain the information is more valuable then keeping it top-of-mind. There is simply too much to know to remember it all. The information is available in moments from any search engine. Memorization is no longer the most efficient system.