Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Many think of memory as rote learning, a linear stuffing of the brain with facts, where understanding is irrelevant. When you teach it properly, with imagination and association, understanding becomes a part of it.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
One of the great things about education is that it should stop you making mistakes - and I have made a lot of mistakes.
As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.
Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.
Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.