(This is a criticism of the literature on education, not of the Show HN project) > Three Learning Problems > Attention, Retention, Reflection This sort of st

(This is a criticism of the literature on education, not of the Show HN project) > Three Learning Problems > Attention, Retention, Reflection This sort of stuff is such nonsense. Notice anything missing there? How about “Understanding”? I believe this mistake might be a result of the desire to tell people that “you can do anything”. But for whatever reason the end result seems to be pretending that intrinsically hard topics don’t exist. An example is the QuantumCountry essay on quantum computing which covers intrinsically hard topics but has these silly and trivial multiple choice questions thrown in (“spaced repetition” I think it’s called). Retention is not the problem. The problem is understanding. Sure, you do need attention and reflection for that, but they are not sufficient.