TimS comments on Online education and Conscientiousness - Less Wrong

13 Post author: gwern 24 February 2012 09:05PM

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Comment author: TimS 27 February 2012 07:04:49PM 0 points [-]

Spaced repetition is interesting, but I was under the impression that it was most helpful for improved memorization. I've always taken the criticism of the education system that it doesn't do a good job of making the material part of the student as the most important critique.

Comment author: gwern 27 February 2012 07:20:11PM 2 points [-]

Is there such a thing as learning without any memorization? And there's little point in studying how it aids abstraction & conceptual understanding if you can't even get the schools to use it for learning English or foreign language vocab, for example.