Like: how much time do you think it would be appropriate to spend in a typical elementary school teaching… in this specific case, the method of loci… assuming that we still have to teach the thousand other things (you know, like math and science and stuff). Would it be a new subject?
The idea of teaching the method of loci is that it will make it easier for the students to store information in their brain.
assuming that we still have to teach the thousand other things (you know, like math and science and stuff).
Few of the things taught are essential. There no reason why every student needs to learn calculus or trigometry.
I think go and look for all the information that most adults forget it. I have interacted with a few Go students from Korea. They went to a school that focused mainly on teaching them Go instead of teaching the usual subjects. The whole curriculum is Go.
They still survive as adults. Schools attempt to teach a lot that isn’t essential and which students forget anyway soon afterwards.
My abilities of using Word wouldn’t be worse if there wouldn’t have been classes in school trying to teach students to use the program.
The first step to do something about education is to recognize that a huge part of what goes on in schools is either teaching stuff that gets forgotten after the next test or it’s about teaching birds to fly.
But you wouldn’t even do something as revolutionary as scrapping the existing curriculum. It’s easy to throw enough year dates at students in history classes that a student who doesn’t use mnemonics for them utterly crashes but a student who uses mnemonics can follow.
Then you do two years of that kind of history education for 9 and 10 year olds with the teacher reiterating mnemonics constantly.
Now if we agree on an estimate that a lesson or two should be enough for the method of loci, then it gives us a specific time frame, which is good for proposing specific solutions.
You can teach the basic concept in a lesson or two but you don’t teach the skill of actually using mnemonics on a habitual basis in that timeframe.
The idea of teaching the method of loci is that it will make it easier for the students to store information in their brain.
Few of the things taught are essential. There no reason why every student needs to learn calculus or trigometry.
I think go and look for all the information that most adults forget it. I have interacted with a few Go students from Korea. They went to a school that focused mainly on teaching them Go instead of teaching the usual subjects. The whole curriculum is Go.
They still survive as adults. Schools attempt to teach a lot that isn’t essential and which students forget anyway soon afterwards.
My abilities of using Word wouldn’t be worse if there wouldn’t have been classes in school trying to teach students to use the program.
The first step to do something about education is to recognize that a huge part of what goes on in schools is either teaching stuff that gets forgotten after the next test or it’s about teaching birds to fly.
But you wouldn’t even do something as revolutionary as scrapping the existing curriculum. It’s easy to throw enough year dates at students in history classes that a student who doesn’t use mnemonics for them utterly crashes but a student who uses mnemonics can follow.
Then you do two years of that kind of history education for 9 and 10 year olds with the teacher reiterating mnemonics constantly.
You can teach the basic concept in a lesson or two but you don’t teach the skill of actually using mnemonics on a habitual basis in that timeframe.