I know the feeling. I would get a C on a test heavy on dates and get a B or better on tests that I would call essay questions. I could learn what happened and in the context of what the order was. Learning a specific date was difficult for me.
When my convoluted path through college required me to once again required me to take US History once again, I tried to ask the instructor if she required us ?to learn specific exact dates. Yes, was her answer. Boring rote, meaning no learning. This was not even for my major, but a basic requirement.?
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So I sat in on the first class of a professor. I asked him the same question. His reply was, why? The library was just down the hill from our room. He wanted us to know that this event was before such and such, which eventually lead up to this other event.?
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I ended up taking both US History, but US Economic History. He also taught us how to study. All in lower level classes. When I finally became a Business major, in night school, I never opened the book in an upper level Econ class, and got a B grade.?
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He was the best instructor I ever had and not one single specific date had to be memorized. ¡°You can go to the library and look it up.¡±
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Brent
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On my iPhone Xr
On Aug 27, 2024, at 10:24, Dutch Junge <dutch@...> wrote:
?I think Einstein said he did want to remember anything he could look up. ?:-)
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Dutch
On Aug 27, 2024, at 11:05?AM, timmeidroth <timmeidroth@...> wrote:
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this comment was baffling --- until i realized dutch probably meant he didn't want to memorize stuff that he wanted to remember.
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On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 3:16?PM Dutch Junge via <dutch=[email protected]> wrote:
I too use Notes for a lot of stuff I don¡¯t want to remember. ?:-)
