#### Most modern education focuses on improving storage strength and memorization of isolated facts instead of building connections and formulating knowledge --- Modern education focuses on standardized tests. Brief learning sessions to put **information** into short term memory in order to pass tests rather than utilizing methods like [[Spaced Repetition]] or [[Zettelkasten]]^[[[The curating of a zettelkasten slip box is an active practice in knowledge building and spaced repetition]]] for committing information to long term memory or formulating a network of connected **knowledge**^[[[For useful learning it helps to connect a piece of information to as many meaningful contexts as possible]]] by relating other ideas to each other so that the neural pathways re-enforce each other. --- Tags: [[Knowledge Formation]] - [[Learning]] - [[Academia]] Links: [[{ 2020-09-09 How To Take Smart Notes]] References: - [[Beginners lacking experience to confidently and correctly judge a situation fall back on the framework of values they were taught]]