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Memorization has gotten a bad rap recently. Lots of students, and even some educators, say that being able to reason is more important than knowing facts; and besides, why bother committing things to memory when you've got Google? My response to this - after I've finished inwardly groaning - is that of course reasoning is important, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't know facts as well. It's not like you have to choose between one or the other. Besides, facts give you a foundation on which to reason about things.

Stefanie Weisman
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Memorizing someone else’s explanation of the truth isn’t the same as seeing the truth for yourself. It is what it is—the memorization of second-hand knowledge. It is not your experience. It is not your knowledge. And no matter how much material is learned by rote, and no matter how eloquently we can speak about the memorized information, we’re clinging to a description of something that’s not ours. What’s more, the description is never the item itself. By holding onto our impression of certain descriptions, we frequently are unable to see the real thing when it’s right before our eyes. We are conditioned by memorizing and believing concepts—the truth of which we’ve never genuinely seen for ourselves.

H.E. Davey, Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation
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...education is the ability to retrieve information at will and analyze it. But you can't have higher-level learning- you can't analyze-without retrieving information.' And you can't retrieve information without putting the information in there in the first place. The dichotomy between "learning" and "memorizing" is false, Matthews contends. You can't learn without memorizing, and if done right, you can't memorize without learning.

Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
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One can be enlightened about proofs as well as theorems. Without enlightenment, one is merely reduced to memorizing proofs. With enlightenment about a proof, its flow becomes clear and it can become an item of astonishing beauty. In addition, the need to memorize disappears because the proof has become part of your soul.

Herbert S. Gaskill, Foundations of Analysis: The Theory of Limits
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Training is an active, dynamic process lived out daily in all areas of life- not a rote exercise in memorizing verses and going to church every week.

Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
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The educated don't get that way by memorizing facts

they get that way by respecting them.
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We take gingko to sharpen our memories. We could be memorizing song lyrics instead.

Joan Oliver Goldsmith, How Can We Keep from Singing: Music and the Passionate Life
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Memorizing and regurgitating are not science. Real science is a constant investigation of the unknown.

Abhijit Naskar
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She is a great gobbler of books, but reads only trash, memorizing nothing and leaving out the longer descriptions.

Vladimir Nabokov, Despair
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Being graded for memorizing male accomplishments with the deep message that we can learn what others do but never do it ourselves.

Gloria Steinem, Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
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