You forget the facts, sure. But you don't forget the critical thinking skills involved in sorting through and reasoning about those facts. At least I hope you don't. It's a myth that the point of education is about all those "useless" facts.
Maintaining memorized information only as long as it is required to achieve a real goal is a feature, not a bug. That almost everything taught in school is forgotten shortly after is an indictment of a system determined to embed largely useless info, not of students' character.
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There's an extant body of research on whether the traditional education system teaches students "critical thinking skills," "how to learn," etc., and the conclusion is a *resounding* no.
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People forget almost everything from school? Shortly afterward, even? Wild.
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Rarely tested but consistently found to be the case (at least in traditional schools adhering to a lecture-based format). An example, from: https://www.amazon.com/What-School-Could-Be-Inspiration/dp/069118061X/ …pic.twitter.com/BKmMFZscel
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FWIW: Sufficiently bugged memory a feature. As someone who would probably get an A on 98% of all previous exams if re-administered today: if you were offering to double my RAM (or make it amenable to more types of info) for $5 million, I'd have financing lined up by tomorrow.
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I think school gets way with "We're teaching you *how* to think!" far more often than is warranted, but to the extent one models working memory as amenable to exercise: "Be able to free-associate over these X,000 pages for a few months" not a thing working world values at zero.
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I don’t think it’s an indication of poor character that you fail to remember much once you’ve come to the conclusion that it’s the wrong thing for you
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There are a very small number of people with exceptional recall abilities. iirc, they are rather unhappy because they cannot properly process the memory of negative events.
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