What if?

Dynamic.

When Socrates tutored/schooled Plato, he gave his knowledge to him all right, but he also gave him a beautiful gift - the strategy of asking the right question when his stored knowledge would not be enough.  Socrates certainly did his part to advance knowledge.  The ability of the brain is built just this way. It stores knowledge, but it also has the ability to ask questions to gain new knowledge and connect knowledge to related ideas. Memories supplying information are seeking ways to be infused into new knowledge.
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Once an observation has been made, the knowledge, or stored memory, is either singular or related to other stored memories. If singular, then the observation's days are numbered before passing out of existence. But, if related then it joins other related memories in a cluster, called a synapse. One bit of knowledge may join as many clusters, or synapses, as it needs to in order to show multiple relationships. So the same memory may be embedded in a number of synapses. The idea is that the more embedding in various synapses an idea has, the more chances it has of reconfiguring old information into new. Embedded information can be recalled and reconfigured if it is pertinent to a new situation.  Information doesn't merely sit around, it is used over and over in both the same situations in which it was originally formed and new contexts in which it finds itself.

It is the time for our schools to become the agency for the modern Socrateses among us. Imagine a school whose teachers know the interests and motivations of her or his students well enough to show how to ask leading questions.  Given the internet's ability to direct someone to articles that inform, knowledge should be multiplying tremendously compared to the restrictions on advancement of knowledge now found in single teacher classrooms of many students.
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How can a teacher teach the information to be embedded in synapses so that it can multiply when new contexts come along? Through supplying the questions required of real-life scenarios in the classroom, used on the internet, encountered with professionals, sometimes other amateurs, or entertained in private, reflective moments of musing.  What an army of thinkers would be created, and the world would take a quantum leap ahead.
 
Dynamic!