The Importance Of Memorization In Education

Although from my experience, memorization is only beneficial when I can translate it into something meaningful, but without perceiving the content it becomes useless and quickly forgotten. In my elementary years, educators followed their curriculum strictly. Each week, I was introduced to new sets of words called sight words. By the end of each week, I was tested on spelling and pronunciation of the sight words, which required memorization. On the test, words were presented as nouns and adjectives. But as a young student, I did not fully perceive what part of speech the word represented; merely focused on memorizing how to correctly pronounce and spell the sight words. Along with my experiences, in math classes memorization tended to be a good necessity to have, especially when having to know formulas in college level mathematics. In earlier years, I was given 1 minute quizzes on the multiplication table. Of course, I only knew four times four is sixteen, because I remembered inputting it into …show more content…
When students’ learning strategies are effectively met, they have the intentions to learn and become more attentive. This makes your job as an educator a bit easier. So why wouldn 't you want to know what works best for your students? Students are our future; and occupations will be filled with these people who you teach. What and how they learn is depended on your teaching style. The success of education depends on the students’ ability to learn material in different learning environments. From my education experience I found Feynman the most logical. So, I challenge you to incorporate practice in your teaching style, enabling students to apply their knowledge to what they have learned. After all, take a second to ask yourself, wouldn’t you want a person to perform surgery on you who can apply knowledge to their learning or a person who simply memorized everything that was