You'll forget most of what you learn. What should you do about that?
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Are we crazy, or are we missing a big secret?
You'll forget most of what you learn. What should you do about that? Are we crazy, or are we missing a big secret? Adam Mastroianni Jul 12, 2022 317 54 7 Share Photo cred: my dad The more I think about this, the weirder it seems. Almost all of us start going to school when we’re three or four, and we don’t stop until we’re somewhere between 18 and 22. Some of us, having nothing better to do, keep going to school long into our twenties and beyond. And yet, invariably, most of what we learn vanishes. We keep a few things: multiplication, spelling, “Columbus sailed the ocean blue in fourteen-hund
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