[hanamizu]

“When you memorize something you quickly forget it.
When you learn something you never forget it.”

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Don’t want to argue with your mom, but I can still recite the 23rd Psalm (Oops I mean, of course, the 23rd Palm) that I had to memorize in church more than a half century ago.

I was also forced to memorize the times tables (remember those?) and they’re still rattling around in my head. I know from first-hand experience that kids today aren’t required to memorize/learn them and have to resort to fingers or a calculator to solve problems like 8 x 4—these are jr. high kids.

[Boogieman]

“I was also forced to memorize the times tables”

They tried to make me memorize the table, but instead I just figured out the patterns in the numbers so I could recreate any part of the table I needed.