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Kind of shocking to see so much angst against memorization here. Memory has been long thought to be a critical component of intelligence, with elaborate mnemon
by lubesGordi 2y ago
Kind of shocking to see so much angst against memorization here.
Memory has been long thought to be a critical component of intelligence, with elaborate mnemonics systems developed by people to help memorize more things (see Francis Yates' The Art of Memory, and to a lesser extent her book on Giordano Bruno).
I would contend that memorizing concepts is a first step in understanding them. Also, that generally understanding concepts isn't a one and done thing, usually there's layers. Personally I found that memorizing things in math helped me immensely when years later I needed to actually understand the things I had memorized.
- knallfrosch 2y agoA fellow CS student didn't understand a theorem, because he didn't understand any of the three definitions used to state it. We went through the definitions together and suddenly the theorem was "trivial" That is true understanding. He won't need to remember the theorem, because in his mind, it automatically follows from the raw data.