Critical Imaginative Thinking Vs. Memorization.?

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<p>Albert Einstein - Was terrible at memorizing, extremely terrible. But superior thinking.
Lu Chao - Knew 100,000 Digits of PI, memorized everything.</p>

<p>So I realized people with a greater ability to memorize have a much weaker ability to critical think as compared in Albert Einstein.</p>

<p>Education is basically the best memorizer gets to be 'known' as the smartest, but in fact, they just a better ability to remember.</p>

<p>So if you see someone in school that thinks they are a genius because they can memorize tons of things, they are actually pretty dumb. Just my 2 cents. What do you guys think?</p>

<p>Todays education is simply rote learning.</p>

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<p>Humphrey Bogart - Had a pet dog. Was a famous actor.
Rick Walters - Did not have a dog. Was not a famous actor.</p>

<p>If you want to be a famous actor, get a dog.</p>

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<p>I think the ability to memorize is much more important.
The highest paying jobs - law, medicine require great memorization.</p>

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<p>i think you are right my friend</p>

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<p>I think having the ability to do both is the difference between success and failure.</p>

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<p>There is a positive correlation between memory and intelligence. However, there are of course exceptions.</p>

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You’re basing huge generalizations on an incredibly small sample size. Way too much extrapolation: [xkcd:</a> Extrapolating](<a href=“http://xkcd.com/605/]xkcd:”>xkcd: Extrapolating)</p>

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Citation?</p>

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Supposition based on small sample size.</p>

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There’s very little memorization in schools at current in comparison to the past.</p>

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<p>Link/reference?</p>

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<p>[Are</a> Intelligence and Memory Linked? - About Intelligence (UK)](<a href=“http://www.aboutintelligence.co.uk/intelligence-memory.html]Are”>Are Intelligence and Memory Linked?)</p>

<p>[Simple</a> Memory Test Predicts Intelligence | LiveScience](<a href=“http://www.livescience.com/culture/memory-test-intelligence-100525.html]Simple”>Simple Memory Test Predicts Intelligence | Live Science)</p>

<p>[Intelligence</a> and Memory | Education.com](<a href=“http://www.education.com/reference/article/intelligence-and-memory/]Intelligence”>Articles | Education.com)</p>

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<p>@Millancad - Rote learning is a learning technique which avoids understanding of a subject and instead focuses on memorization.</p>

<p>In math-based classes do they actually take the time to tell you how the formula works or do they just tell you to memorize it?</p>

<p>Memorizing only makes you as bright as the man who found out what your memorizing.</p>

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<p>^Did I say anything to the contrary? Or anything that suggested that I needed a definition or example of rote memorization? I said that that memorization is less common in schools now than it was in the past.</p>

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<p>Isn’t this the opposite of what you have been arguing?</p>

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<p>Working memory is multiple thoughts, not memorization.</p>

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<p>@Silverturtle - Yes & No. I meant to say it only makes you less bright.</p>

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<p>Working memory is a form of memory.</p>

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<p>You’re saying that memorizing material makes someone less intelligent?</p>

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<p>I’m saying that, it doesn’t make you as creative as the person who thought it.</p>

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A person can still be memorize something and be more creative than the people who discovered the things they memorized.</p>

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<p>oh but Memorization is the mother to Critical thinking
Everything starts off from memorizing.
Schools thesedays do suck however.</p>

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<p>Yes but thats not the point. The point I’m trying to say is that Critical Thinking & Memorization take part of 99% total.</p>

<p>So if someone has 70Critical, they would have 39Memorization. And vise versa. That pretty much what I’m saying.</p>

<p>@lifegr - Yes thats right, in our current education stand point, but I can assure you that in the past Critical Thinking was the father of Memorization.
You can’t memorize if you don’t have something in the first place to.</p>

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<p>^ Addition fail.</p>

<p>Move on, folks. Nothing to see here.</p>