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Learning should be made harder rather than easier, and a teacher's instinct to smooth the path is the first thing that goes wrong.

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  1. Alan Castel

    Professor of psychology at UCLA

    How can you make learning kind of uncomfortable, but that you'll remember things better? And it goes against a lot of our intuitions. A lot of teachers will want to say, how can we make learning easier? And I think that's probably the first problem is you don't want it to be easy.

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