There's a place for rote memorization
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There's a place for rote memorization
Facts are truer than theories
I love facts. You know how periodically teachers are like, "We don't teach kids facts, we teach them how to think!" I'm like...but you teach them some facts too right? I mean where are kids gonna learn facts unless someone teaches them!
A while back I read Stefan Zweig's memoir about growing up in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (The World Of Yesterday). Fin…
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