1/ I agree: memorization is not understanding. But, it does afford low-latency cache look-ups. And, amortized, it often lets you spend *more* time on problem solving using new ideas and techniques — where you pay your real tuition — than you could have without memorization.
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3/ The hard part is the balance because, (A) Memorization is boring AF; and (B) On auto-pilot, it readily becomes busy work.
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Memorizing puts you on the first floor of the pyramid, but it's the first step to getting to the top.pic.twitter.com/ouAUQ4VE7A
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I'm not surprised you had some good analogy for this ;)
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It took me a long time to admit this when failing to learn Spanish as a kid. If you're struggling to remember nouns your grammar construction loop is always going to lag
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Yea. And for me (at least in high school), the combination of that and fumbling through spanish in front of a class made it pretty futile.
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