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I eagerly remember everything I read in wikipedia. Because I read what interests me, because I have grown-up context and know how to remember things. I sound l

• angersock 14y ago
  Your second example is practice--think of it as training the ALU in your brain. In the first example, learning those trig relations is useful later for doing calculus and other things. You may forget them over time, but to have never been exposed to them would be a loss. The answer that "Well, I can just Wikipedia them later!" assumes that you know what to look for later. This turns you from being a thinking person into a glorified cache for the internet. I'm not sure that's a good thing. How old are you, anyway?
  • guard-of-terra 14y ago
    What if I don't want to train any TLAs? The problem with trig relations is that school math makes a whole lot of grindingly huge excercises out of them; and then grade you by your ability to do the mental clownade. I'm so not into this. I'm 27.