Repetition

Our schooling system relies heavily on repetition. Personally, I hate repetition. There are two problems with this.

The first is boredom. Boredom is usually caused when someone struggles with mental inactivity. Repetition keeps thoughts on a specific lesson, and students are prevented from advancing their thoughts.

The second problem is that it sacrifices real learning for memorization. It is impossible to truly learn from repetition. Learning requires you to figure out how to actually accomplish a task. Memorized facts are likely to be forgotten if you don’t turn to them regularly. By comparison, actual learning tends to stick with you.

When the schools fixate on repetition, they are proving that they value memorized facts more that they value the learning achieved by their students. I completely disagree with them on this point. Students are learning too slowly because they are being bogged down with relatively worthless facts that they will never use in the real world. I personally believe that learning would be so much more valuable to them.