My philosophy

I was pre-reading a book that I want to have Seri read. It's the Rich Dad, Poor Dad; For Teens book.
At one point he said something that completely resonated with me. He was describing how Albert Einstein never really did well in school. He would rather use the storage in his brain for creative and logical thinking than for storing facts.
To be succesful you have to think outside the box most of the time and be creative and logical. You need to know where the facts can be found when you need them, not neccesarily to have them stored in your head.
I guess this is more or less the philosophy that I teach my children by. We don't do a lot of Social Studies or Geography or subjects of that matter. I do teach writing, reading and math when they are at a maturity level that it will be easy for them to learn those skills.
I would rather they be able to think abstractly, logically and I guess what I am is saying is that I want them to be able to think..... not regurgitate information.
Information that they do not really need to know as long as they do know where to look for it should they need it.