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I think Point0 and Point3 are currently underappreciated. For all the failings of today’s public education, I believe things used to be “worse” as far as rote m
by epgui 4y ago
I think Point0 and Point3 are currently underappreciated. For all the failings of today’s public education, I believe things used to be “worse” as far as rote memorization went.
The problems with rote learning are obvious, and I don’t mean to dismiss them. But I do think the pendulum has swung so far that today, there is excessive and harmful stigma attached to it. Rote learning is a bit of a leap of faith, and it requires trusting that it will be useful in the end (in other words it comes with an upfront cost)… and this is incredibly powerful for taking some academic shortcuts in a limited amount of time.
- Agentlien 4y agoI always despised rote learning as a student because I mostly read things once and then remember them. It felt so stupid being forced to solve the same problems again and again. I'd already seen them! Now, as an adult, I've noticed how much faster I can get past a lot of tricky issues in my work because the patterns I see a lot are familiar and I can glance over them because I know them by heart and don't get stuck on every little detail.