
85. Why Don't Students Like School? by Daniel Willingham
Education Bookcast
Understanding Is Remembering in Disguise
If you need 50 concrete experiences to produce one abstraction, then you're going to have 50 times more concrete stuff in your head. And as a result, it's easier for you to work from concrete things and learn concrete things than it is to learn abstract things. To build new abstract things on top of old abstract things, well, you'regoing to need very strong high quality abstract things inyour head. You're going to need to really have those concepts working well. If that happens, it really helps you understand a new concept. Even if it's relatively complex, it helps you to get it. It helps you to build an intuition. So understanding is remembering in disguise is massive.
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