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		allturtles on March 31, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SFUSD's delay of algebra 1 has created a nightmare... Isn't that what memorizing is? Repeating something until you just know it? I don't understand the distinction you're making.

WalterBright on March 31, 2023 [–]

> Isn't that what memorizing is? Repeating something until you just know it?

Memorizing is a directed effort to remember something. Remembering something as a side effect of some other task is not memorization.

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