> Students are increasingly brought up to do > memorisation over creativity. Is is so, or is this just a popular thought mindlessly repeated over and over? The

> Students are increasingly brought up to do > memorisation over creativity. Is is so, or is this just a popular thought mindlessly repeated over and over? The thing is, for creativity you need a foundation of knowledge and there is no way to avoid memorization. Also, you may need to memorize what was already done: if you keep recreating everything yourself from scratch you may not have time to create anything new.