First, some background …
The tests I used to give to my students always included some questions that can reasonably be tagged “memorization”.
Some students were repulsed by them and oft-shoutdc the cultural refrain: “Don’t memorize anything that you can look up.”
The apparent thinking: You’ve only got a limited amount of space in your brain, so don’t clog it with an overload of information … only store the stuff you can’t look-up.
What’s wrong with that argument?
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