Even for learning deeply creative skills, having a good scaffold of the vocabulary, concepts, and atomic pieces of knowledge is very important to construct high

Even for learning deeply creative skills, having a good scaffold of the vocabulary, concepts, and atomic pieces of knowledge is very important to construct high-level connections later on. Often, the relationship between fact-base memorization and high-level synthesis is a complex balance, but learning any skill or discipline is going to involve a fairly large amount of gruntwork in terms of just memorizing vocabulary and basic facts.