Memorizing it isn't like learning it no matter how much students think it is (p. 123). It's not always easy for students to retain the information from a whole semester especially if it's on a subject they don't particulary understand. Memorizing is taking the easy way out of cramming in the information and then forgetting it the next day.
Normally I wouldn't have too much sympathy for students who do this and I would say it's part of life and they just need to learn it because you don't always get what you want in life. However, I was the student in school who memorized way too much of the material because when it came to history and science I had difficulty learning all the concepts and information so before the test I would learn it long enough to put it down on the test. The problem is I do agree with the students memorizing it isn't how you learn things because most of what I memorize in school I forgot and I feel like I am not as knowledgable on certain subjects because I don't kow about the wars, I don't know who fought who or why, I don't know a lot of science concepts, etc. These are all things that result from not actually learning the content in school and I definitely wish I knew more now and that I understood things better.
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