tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post9182396039477805711..comments2024-03-17T10:40:52.762-05:00Comments on The Buck Stops Here: Memorization is ImportantStuart Buckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05731724396708879386noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post-75735600618051403282010-03-14T00:58:20.592-06:002010-03-14T00:58:20.592-06:00Excellent post. I wrote a post about the importan...Excellent post. I wrote a post about the importance of memorization here - check it out if you are interested: http://www.wideawakeminds.com/2009/09/art-of-memorization.html<br /><br />An excerpt: "Memorization gets a bad rap in education circles, but it remains a fact of life for students and adults in many settings: anatomy and other subjects in pre-medical or medical school; "black-letter" legal rules and terminology in law school; dates and locations in undergraduate history survey courses; the names and dates of artworks in art history courses; and vocabulary and grammatical structures in the study of world languages.<br /><br />In the professional world, there is an acute need to remember names and faces: all of your networking will come to naught if you can't remember anyone's name. And if you are a K-12 teacher, you are expected to learn something like 150 new names within the first week or two of each school year."Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01626605478233269742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post-15347378704739006702010-01-23T11:31:58.965-06:002010-01-23T11:31:58.965-06:00I agree with your points, in addition to which I&#...I agree with your points, in addition to which I'd add that there is still the problem of immediacy of access. Fast as Google is, if I had to do a search every time I needed access to a fact pertinent to my job(s), I'd spend my whole day searching. Instant recall is critical not only in terms of brute efficiency, but also in terms of effectively relating facts to other facts to model relevant decision trees, action plans, outcomes, etc.Michael Drakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06141593700908475896noreply@blogger.com