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Re:A new school curriculum by luizfzs on Monday November 25, 2019 @11:01AM (#21629302)
Memorizing is not useless at all. Here is a few examples:

In order to sing a song, you need to memorize it.

If you play poker, you can memorize useful probabilities, because you don't want to perform calculations all the time.

As a sys admin, you need to memorize commands and their syntax.

The list is endless.

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Re:A new school curriculum by yellowapple on Monday November 25, 2019 @06:53PM (#21634244)
> As a sys admin, you need to memorize commands and their syntax.

As a sysadmin, I just Google it (or DuckDuckGo it, nowadays). I also take notes; why should I memorize something if I can tell my computer to memorize it for me?

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