911truther comments on Knowledge ready for Ankification - Less Wrong

14 Post author: lukeprog 02 February 2012 06:58PM

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Comment author: 911truther 02 February 2012 08:13:01PM -1 points [-]

It's a terrible idea to try to learn theorems by memorization, if all you want to do is pass math tests fine.. but if you want to understand mathematics it's definitely going to do more harm than good.

Comment author: billswift 02 February 2012 09:47:20PM 12 points [-]

You don't learn things from flash cards, you fix things you have already learned into your memory. And memorizing the formulas encoding theorems is definitely helpful.

Comment author: amcknight 14 February 2012 08:37:27PM 0 points [-]

Maybe for math, but I learned the capital and location of every country using Anki cards.