I'm not sure the title captures the essence of a school, at least for STEM subject. For instance, why is doing maths in schools not "doing"? We solved the same math problems that the real mathematicians had to solve hundreds of years ago, no? The way we tested the Avogadro constant was not that different from a real chemist did a hundred years ago, no? We didn't do the modern ones mostly because the students had not the advanced prereq yet. I think it's more accurate to categorize what we do in school as controlled doing. Yes, we abstract every object as a point mass or a rigid body when learning Newton Mechanics, but that's only because the real-world is too complex for a high-schooler to handle. Yes, we implemented only a single-threaded SkipList using standard C library when taking the first course on algorithms, but that's only because most of the students wouldn't have enough knowledge to go beyond that.