You need to know stuff to have things to put together. School may seem just to be about memorization, but you're doing yourself down if you memorize and then d

You need to know stuff to have things to put together. School may seem just to be about memorization, but you're doing yourself down if you memorize and then discard. Instead, memorize and keep! The more you know, the more opportunities you'll have for things to bang together, make sparks and create a fire in your belly. Oddly enough, this can be true even of history or grammar, although it's impossible to predict how. Don't simply memorize, though. Work out for yourself how things fit together. School is giving you this opportunity, but you need to take the chance.