[nathanbedford]

My experience as well is that writing stuff down tends to hold it in memory better and that, perhaps not incidentally, is the argument the American professors advance in prohibiting laptops in the classroom.

My problem is that for lecture courses there should not even be a classroom, it should be done online and the professor should have his salary cut way back and collect royalties for the audio/video lecture viewed by the students on the Internet. If you are studying a liberal arts course it seems to me that memory is not the primary objective but reasoning is and I do not understand how memorizing a professor's lecture advantages the student over absorbing the material in written form. I can read faster than I can listen and I can re-read what I don't understand. In any event, I can replay that portion of the lecture that I think is important or that which I do not understand.

I have to cut this reply short, or I might lose my reputation for brevity.

[Jacquerie]

Our history proves that once institutions are commandeered by the Left, they will be perverted from their intended purposes.

Beginning a hundred years ago, America pretty well ceased to maintain, let alone improve republican supporting institutions.

In view of our corrupted K-12 and higher Ed systems alone, it is amazing there are any conservatives at all.