I imagine Einstein probably made all of his important discoveries because of his memorization skills. :)
Seriously, I've never been a fan of memorizing stuff. That's one of the biggest reasons I pulled my daughter out of public school and sent her to a Montessori school. Just recently we had a gathering at the school were they had a couple of former students return (The Montessori school only goes to 6th grade). There was a 7th and an 11th grader there. Both of them were amazed at the amount of homework assigned at public schools. The 7th grader was talking about how it was inundating at first. Both of them said that the homework wasn't hard, it was really just busy work. To quote the 11th grader, "With the homework we have now, the answers are always in the book, you just have to find them. When we were asked questions at the montessori school, you had to find the answer in your head". On 2/3/07, Jerry Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ""Learning stops when memorization begins." > > I so disagree with that. Of course a lot of learning is intuitive. > It is a lot easier to be intuitive when you have recall of facts > though. > > I remember elementary school mathematics well. It was all rote. We > did basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, etc over and over. > > Worked pretty well for me. I have a MA in math. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:226782 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
