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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Memorization is not the same as education. They can google any of that. I would rather have them remember from working with the concepts and relationships of each topic as opposed to rote memorization.[/quote]

Turns out that knowing facts (memorization) is the basis of being able to comprehend something.

https://greatminds.org/english/blog/witwisdom/the-science-of-reading-what-is-prior-knowledge-and-why-is-it-important[/quote]

Knowing facts is definitely NOT the same as memorization. Don’t you find it illuminating that the word “memorization” does not appear even once in that very long article that you used as a citation? Shouldn’t that tell you something?[/quote]

"Memorization is the process of committing something to memory"

Memorizing it is included in the process of knowing it. If you don't want to memorize it by reciting it or whatever fine, but I think the rest of us are defining memorization to include any way of committing things to memory.[/quote]

Memorizing the names of the 50 states doesn’t mean you know anything at all about them. They are just words without meaning.[/quote]

And as people knew in the past (and many know today), learning the words is the first step to being able to add in meaning. I can't point to Kansas on a map if I don't know the word Kansas. I can learn "Kansas" and it's location on a map at the same time, or I can learn Kansas first. Is one better than the other? I don't know. Is knowing the location of Kansas better than not knowing it? I think so.[/quote]

Being able to read a map is far more useful than being able to list the 50 states in alphabetical order like someone mentioned previously.[/quote]

I'm going to blow your mind, I can actually read a map too.  And I have all 50 state capitals memorized too.[/quote]
Wow really hard [/quote]

It must be, because people think you can't do both. "If I memorize states how can I possibly read a map!?" [/quote]

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