> Connections can only be made between ideas when they are in the mind to be connected. This is probably true. I always used to try to understand to avoid the

> Connections can only be made between ideas when they are in the mind to be connected. This is probably true. I always used to try to understand to avoid the bother of rote learning... but the truth is, I probably examined it so intensively while trying to understand, that I rote learned without realizing it.