I still stand by my statements, memorization really has 0 to do with being a good teacher in ANYTHING.
Originally Posted by jim_0068
That's great because the above is LEARNING not TEACHING. You think the teacher teaching the kids the ABCs is a wonderful teacher because he/she can recite the ABCs?
My wife is a very good Kindergarten teacher, and a tremendous amount of her elementary education training was memorization work. Sure she learned how to communicate and apply the material and even learned special needs teaching tecniques, but I can assure you she would laugh in my face if I suggested that memorization had absolutely nothing to do with her being a good teacher. She would look pretty foolish if she had to lookup what letter comes after "A" everytime she wanted to teach her students the alphabet.
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