Tag: brain, education, memory, neuroscience, science

…education is the ability to retrieve information at will and analyze it. But you can’t have higher-level learning- you can’t analyze-without retrieving information.’ And you can’t retrieve information without putting the information in there in the first place. The dichotomy between “learning” and “memorizing” is false, Matthews contends. You can’t learn without memorizing, and if done right, you can’t memorize without learning.

…education is the ability to retrieve information at will and analyze it. But you can’t have higher-level learning- you can’t analyze-without retrieving information.’ And you can’t retrieve information without putting the information in there in the first place. The dichotomy between “learning” and “memorizing” is false, Matthews contends. You can’t learn without memorizing, and if done right, you can’t memorize without learning.