> [..] not actually learning and boils down to storing and regurgitating [...] Some would say that pretty much _all_ learning involves "storing" and "regurgita

> [..] not actually learning and boils down to storing and regurgitating [...] Some would say that pretty much _all_ learning involves "storing" and "regurgitating". Aside: my daughter started writing out her name at kindergarten a couple of years ago. One of the staff seemed a bit dismissive of this, and claimed what was happening wasn't really "writing" it was "merely memorising the shapes of letters and then reproducing them in the right order". <rolls eyes> I didn't bother to argue...