My friend Andrew is an advocate of the “spaced repetition” technique for memorization of a great many facts [1]. The ideas behind this are two-fold: When one first “learns” a new fact, it needs to be reviewed frequently in order to not forget it. However, with each additional review, the …
What seems to be missing is that the time to learn a new fact takes away from time available to remember old facts. So eventually you won’t be able to learn anything new because you have to spend your time remembering old facts.
(This also assumes humans have infinite brain capacity, which isn’t true.)
What seems to be missing is that the time to learn a new fact takes away from time available to remember old facts. So eventually you won’t be able to learn anything new because you have to spend your time remembering old facts.
(This also assumes humans have infinite brain capacity, which isn’t true.)