I disagree. This attitude...and teaching style often extend well into college.
I literally had a professor who read from the book for lecture and then did his tests out of the book. Granted, it's probably one of the best physics text books ever written (David Griffiths) but it's very, very difficult to learn this way. Students resort to memorization when they have no other options. Nearly every student could solve problems within a range of 'like' problems (change a variable or two, a power, etc.) but had no actual ability to solve truly unique equations in the subject or even formulate their own questions.
This was a 3rd year physics course at a top-50 school.
I literally had a professor who read from the book for lecture and then did his tests out of the book. Granted, it's probably one of the best physics text books ever written (David Griffiths) but it's very, very difficult to learn this way. Students resort to memorization when they have no other options. Nearly every student could solve problems within a range of 'like' problems (change a variable or two, a power, etc.) but had no actual ability to solve truly unique equations in the subject or even formulate their own questions.
This was a 3rd year physics course at a top-50 school.