Where students who were intrinsically motivated to understand content perceived an assessment to require memorization, they would memorize facts after having first understood them (Tang 1994).
The Chinese are robots who unimaginatively memorize facts to score well on tests.
"You learn how to follow directions, meet deadlines and memorize facts".
Bill Clinton may have a zombie's ability to memorize facts, but he's obviously a vampire at heart.
Beyond teaching children to memorize facts and figures, some game designers are working to build in elements of problem solving.
Plagiarism was also rampant; if you have only learned to memorize facts, how can you value intellectual property and original thought?
— Bruce Alberts, editor in chief of the journal Science, says "we must teach our students to do something in science class, not to memorize facts".
"It's hard to memorize facts about a person when you only know their name but you haven't seen their face".
This was seen as a way to get students thinking about the broad picture, to analyze rather than just memorize facts.
My son's teacher was challenging the class not merely to memorize facts that could be parroted back, but also to consider the source of historical information and the source's intent — to think critically.
