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Memorization is Important

By Stuart Buck, Esq.

I've dealt with this topic before (see here and here), but people keep coming up with the odd notion that thanks to the Internet, you no longer need to know things. From The Edge's (superlative) annual "World Question Center": Before the Internet, most professional occupations required a large body of knowledge, accumulated over years or even decades of experience. But now, anyone with good critical thinking skills and the ability to focus on the important information can retrieve it on demand from the Internet, rather than her own memory. On the other hand, those with wandering minds, who might once have been able to focus by isolating themselves with their work, now often cannot work without the Internet, which simultaneously furnishes a panoply of unrelated information ? whether about their friends' doings, celebrity news, limericks, or millions of other sources of distraction...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on January 22, 2010 (boomark / email).