learning

Organizing knowledge for memorization

Memorization has a bad reputation in education today, but it underpins the abilities of all sorts of high-performing people. I often refer to this article from 1999 about how to better organize information for memorization. My favorite pieces of advice: Do not learn (memorize) if you do not understand. Stick to the minimum information principle. Use imagery Avoid sets and enumerations Use mnemonic techniques.