When you take a History class, you memorize a whole bunch of dates and names and places etc etc etc and often have to name those on tests.
You are likely to forget most of the specific names, dates, places etc etc etc that you learned, but the overarching timeline, events, important ideas that people represented etc etc etc will stick with you. And that’s the point.
You may not notice you learned anything in the process, but your brain did.
No, not really. Memorization does not confer understanding…
When you take a History class, you memorize a whole bunch of dates and names and places etc etc etc and often have to name those on tests.
You are likely to forget most of the specific names, dates, places etc etc etc that you learned, but the overarching timeline, events, important ideas that people represented etc etc etc will stick with you. And that’s the point.
Not at all true for me. I’ll remember people and events and why shirt happened. When and where?? Not a chance.
But anyway, the point is that rote memorization has, like, almost no long term benefit. It’s really a lie.
Okay, well, you are welcome to believe that.
When teachers go to school to learn to be a teacher, they don’t just sit in Masters classes with their thumbs up their asses, is all I’m saying.
Good luck!