The shortest blog post EVER

Question from student – If I don’t remember this “stuff” next term can I say I truly learnt it? AHHHH Schools still don’t get it!!

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One Response to The shortest blog post EVER

  1. mrsdurff says:

    If one remembers the material this term, it is safe to say it is in short-term memory, hence learned. But is the information in long-term memory, hence in life-long memory? That is where information is truly useful. I cannot remember what I had for dinner last week (can you?) but I remember how many rimes are contained in the English language, how many English words are produced in those rimes are combined with different onsets, and in which book I read that and who wrote it. The difference is short-term memory versus long-term memory. That information was useful to me. Einstein, a rather knowledgeable guy, didn’t know his phone number. It wasn’t useful to him. Anyone see a pattern here?

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