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There's a legit trade-off. 100% memorization is bad. 100% learn to learn with 0% memorization is bad too. Research indicates that people learn more when they
by mathattack 13y ago
There's a legit trade-off. 100% memorization is bad. 100% learn to learn with 0% memorization is bad too. Research indicates that people learn more when they have context, which unfortunately comes from memorization. (I hated memorization, I'm more of a derive the facts person)
E D Hirsch has some of the research behind this. http://www.coreknowledge.org/books http://www.coreknowledge.org/books
- dragonwriter 13y ago> 100% learn to learn with 0% memorization is bad too. 100% learn to learn with 0% memorization isn't bad, its just an incoherent concept (to be bad it would have to be a real thing.) Memorization is an essential component (though not the only one) of learning to learn.