I remember the hard math-heavy university courses having homework questions that came down to copying down a solutions from somewhere, and having a score for it

I remember the hard math-heavy university courses having homework questions that came down to copying down a solutions from somewhere, and having a score for it was there to make sure you wrote down those solutions over and over again. Doing that properly burned those approaches into my mind and even though I wasn't coming up with those solutions myself, I did get the learning step