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If you need to memorize a phone number rather than learn a complex subject, do you feel the same way? Are your feelings backed by data?
by newsclues 4y ago
If you need to memorize a phone number rather than learn a complex subject, do you feel the same way?
Are your feelings backed by data?
- phyphy 4y agoThis is why open book examinations are a thing. Memorization is rather redundant IMO. Being able to use the concepts to solve the problems is an important skill.
- davisoneee 4y agoYou need to memorise enough of the topic to know what to look up in a book. You need to memorise enough of the topic that you can draw relationships between disparate elements. Having content in your memory means you have the ability to potentially pull it up quicker, or to pull it up in a situation (such as a team meeting) where you don't have access to the book. If you rely only on what's previously written, foregoing memorisation, you are limited to the relationships that other people have written down.