The Importance of Space Repetition in Learning

In traditional learning, the rate of acquisition gets balanced by the rate of forgetting. So your knowledge just stays the same and it becomes like a flat line. With space repetition, since you're not forgetting what you've already learned, your old knowledge stays in your brain. And that is amazing. It makes a memory a choice rather than it being hadn't stand so chance. This is new science. We have stumbled on to something beautiful here. The alchemy of knowledge.