They were just fine if they had to drive without worrying about math or word memorization, and they could memorize and do math all right if they didn't also have to drive.
They do not have exception memorization skills.
Rather than the memorization of simple algorithms to solve equations by rote, it demands true insight into the subject, clever ideas for applying theorems in special situations, an ability to generalize from known facts, and an insistence on the importance of proof.
Thus, the Laozi consists of brief summaries of Laozi's sayings, many of which are in rhyme and others in polished prose to facilitate memorization.
He argued for a student-centred, not subject-centred, curriculum and stressed the teaching of critical thought over rote memorization.
The jongleurs, professional minstrels, traveled and performed their extensive repertoires, which ranged from epics to the lives of saints (the lengthy romances were not designed for memorization), sometimes using mime and musical accompaniment.
Americans were convinced that Japanese education had been too concerned with rote memorization and indoctrination and that what Japan needed was a curriculum that encouraged initiative and self-reliance.
As the history of the revelation, memorization, and eventual recording in written form of the Qurʾān makes clear, the society of Arabia was one that relied to a large extent on human memory to preserve details of important events and principles and to pass on such information and artifacts to succeeding generations.
Full logographic systems such as Chinese or mixed systems such as Japanese are difficult to acquire because they require the memorization of thousands of distinctive characters.
Having insisted on being paid and having been credited with the invention of a (lost) method of memorization, Simonides can be seen as a precursor of the 5th-century Sophists.
