Education reform should start in the classroom, with the relationship between teacher and pupil. In this vein, high school math teacher Ben Orlin’s recent Atlantic piece “When Memorization Gets in the ...

Mathematics education in the United States puts far too much emphasis on memorization, says Stanford math education professor Jo Boaler. And that ultimately leads students to both misunderstand and ...

The idea of rote memorization is bound to tick some people off, which makes for nice discussion and debate. In all the very legitimate conversation about critical thinking, problem-solving, analysis, ...

Virginia Heffernan’s recent Times piece in defense of the pedagogical value of “drilling” made me wish, momentarily, that I’d gone to school during the American heyday of rote memorization. Recalling ...

Ask a student to memorize a formula, and AI can do it faster. But ask them to apply it to a real-world problem, and that’s where the future of rigor lies. For decades, rigor in advanced coursework ...

I’ve always been good at memorizing. In high school, I learned countless vocab words and their meanings in both English and Latin, the names of bones in anatomy, states and their capitals in geography ...

A few years ago, I was directing someone who was completely new to acting. This man, we’ll call him Al, was having a terrible time memorizing his lines. There were times during the first performances ...

I have a pretty terrible memory. I constantly forget where I left my phone, and I couldn't tell you what I ate for breakfast the day before yesterday. When friends bring up something we did together ...