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You'll forget most of what you learn. What should you do about that?

Adam Mastroianni · 12 Jul 2022 · experimental-history.com ↗

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Every claim below was made in this piece, quoted word for word and numbered in the order the piece makes them, so you can read it there rather than take our word for it. The sentence above each quote is our reading of the claim, not their wording. Each quote was checked against a stored copy of the page at build time; where the two differ, the quote is the fact.

  1. Our reading

    We know a good deal about how people actually learn, and almost nobody is ever taught it.

    Their wordsWe do, in fact, know quite a bit about how people learn, and almost nobody learns it.
    Interesting

  2. Our reading

    Highlighting, rereading and summarising are poor ways to remember what you have read, and cramming is worse.

    Their wordsWhen you want to remember something you’ve read, do you highlight it, reread it, or summarize it afterward? Those strategies don’t work very well.
    Interesting

  3. Our reading

    What survives an education is not the knowledge but the feeling it left behind.

    Their wordsI’m here to tell you that learning is all about vibes.
    Interesting

  4. Our reading

    Knowledge decays fast when it goes unused, while the feeling a class left behind lasts for decades.

    Their wordsFeelings, or vibes, on the other hand, seem to stick around a lot longer.
    Interesting

  5. Our reading

    Almost all of education is organised around knowledge and skills, which are exactly the part that does not last.

    Their wordsAlmost all of education centers around knowledge and skills rather than vibes.
    Interesting

  6. Our reading

    Knowledge is cheap and easily acquired; what a person actually needs is curiosity, self-efficacy, perseverance, perspective and hope.

    Their wordsUntangling them requires some knowledge, yes, but knowledge is cheap and easily acquired. What you really need is curiosity, self-efficacy, perseverance, perspective, and hope.
    Interesting

  7. Our reading

    Learning a technical skill turns less on memorising its parts than on accepting that you will feel stupid and carrying on anyway.

    Their wordsThe students who ultimately succeed in learning R are not the ones who force themselves to memorize functions or do a bunch of coding drills.
    Interesting