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Sergio C. Fanjul, a journalist at El País, Spain’s leading daily, sent me some questions by email on a subject I am passionate about, the learning model and the use (and abuse) of memory, for an article entitled “¿Merece la pena memorizar algo con tanta tecnología?” (“With so much technology, is it worth memorizing anything?”) (pdf).
It’s a tricky subject, and above all, one that is difficult to explain. For some reason, as soon as you try to explain to someone that memory is the most abused capacity in traditional learning models and that the ability to remember stuff does not make you more educated or more intelligent, they automatically think that you want to see a society of ignoramuses who have to Google everything, which makes me wonder about their