There are things best memorized and things we look up in reference books or now look up on the internet. I have no need to memorize unit conversion formulas when I have the Convert Pad app on my phone, but those formulas are test questions for high school students. Time could be better spent understanding the why and how than memorizing …
There are things best memorized and things we look up in reference books or now look up on the internet. I have no need to memorize unit conversion formulas when I have the Convert Pad app on my phone, but those formulas are test questions for high school students. Time could be better spent understanding the why and how than memorizing what when it is easy to look up.
If you use something all the time you memorize it without trying.
Yep, memorisation definitely isn't the enemy. The issue is when it becomes the only way people are able to interact with information. They just swallow the talking points of "the right side of history ™" whole, and don't allow themselves, or even know how, to think critically about them.
There are things best memorized and things we look up in reference books or now look up on the internet. I have no need to memorize unit conversion formulas when I have the Convert Pad app on my phone, but those formulas are test questions for high school students. Time could be better spent understanding the why and how than memorizing what when it is easy to look up.
If you use something all the time you memorize it without trying.
Yep, memorisation definitely isn't the enemy. The issue is when it becomes the only way people are able to interact with information. They just swallow the talking points of "the right side of history ™" whole, and don't allow themselves, or even know how, to think critically about them.