When Forgetting is Inevitable

A new quote from The Book of Learning and Forgetting by Frank Smith

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Transcription

But we can only learn from activities that are interesting and comprehensible to us; in other words, activities that are satisfying. If this is not the case, only inefficient rote-learning, or memorization, is available to us and forgetting is inevitable.¹ — Frank Smith

1. Smith, Frank, The Book of Learning and Forgetting, Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York and London, 1998. p. 87.