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<p>Assignment: Is knowing facts more important than understanding ideas and concepts?</p>

<pre><code>Knowing facts are not as important as understanding ideas and concepts. This is because knowing facts won’t get you far in life, but understanding concepts can help you become successful in life.
As my biology teacher once said, understanding the concepts is much more important than knowing facts. He explained that just plain memorization can only get you so far. But understanding concepts will allow you to actually make sense of everything. For example, knowing the names of every person that has contributed to genetics maybe useful, but understanding how they contributed to genetics is even more important. In the long run, knowing facts is much less important than understanding concepts. Knowing all the facts of Watson and Crick is much less important in the future than knowing what they contributed to biology.
Chemistry is a good example of why understanding concepts is more important than remembering facts. To pass chemistry, there are two general methods. You can either memorize every single formula by brute force, or you can understand the concepts and breeze through the formulas. Although memorizing Boyle’s, Charles’ and other gas formulas are important, understanding the general gas laws will be more productive and safe you from memorizing all the formulas.
Knowing facts is not very difficult. After all, it is just memorization. But understanding concepts is much more difficult. After all, in a field like Architecture, knowing facts won’t do you much good. Knowing formulas in Architecture won’t help you design buildings. If you understand concepts like structural integrity of material, you will be able to apply those concepts to make a building, something you couldn’t do with just facts.
Although you can scrape a pass in most classes with brute force memorization, understanding concepts will make your life easier, and make it easier to see the big picture.
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<p>4/6. You seem to know how to write decently well, but your argument is too vague and general.</p>