Progressive teaching vs. Factual teaching

Factual teaching has it's place in the world, but not for most things. I think the only place factual teaching has is in science and math. Since both of those subjects use all sorts of numbers and experiments, they have to be factual in order to be taught. I say this because numbers and experiments have to be constant and factual in order for us to learn anything or else they wouldn't have any credibility. But if factual teaching is used for almost anything else, it defeats the purpose of teaching. Teaching is meant to let the students grow in their own intellect, not the intellect of the facts they are told. Which is why progressive teaching should be the preferred method of learning.