I agree teaching people how to memorize better is extremely useful. When I was a kid my SAT score jumped a couple hundred points after someone taught me how to

I agree teaching people how to memorize better is extremely useful. When I was a kid my SAT score jumped a couple hundred points after someone taught me how to use mnemonics (e.g., "mundane" is boring just like "mondays"). But it didn't change the fact that I was still just memorizing a list of vocab rather than learning them naturally in context by reading more.