That's not the point. My point is that memorization is not education. Calling any mere information retrieval task education cheapens the entire idea of having a

That's not the point. My point is that memorization is not education. Calling any mere information retrieval task education cheapens the entire idea of having a mind and doing important things with it. Perhaps ironically, the ability to appreciate this point is not something you can achieve with Google (or by looking it up in a book). You have to think about the meaning of your experience of using your mind as you have gone through your life. At one time I memorized 1132 digits of pi. There was no point to doing this other than to experience the process of memorization and recall, itself, in a relatively pure form. I've lost most of those digits now. But the insight I gained-- which is not about retrieval but about a way of seeing and interpreting the world, stayed with me. THAT is education: the mind I've created and my process of creating it.