Memorising facts is the most important way to succeed in education. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

Cramming learning strategies are considered
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essential key to successful academic performance.
However
, I completely disagree with
this
point. Learning without knowing does no good either education or cognition development. I will illustrate and explain why people cannot benefit from it in the following paragraphs.
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memorising learning strategies, the drawback of them outweighs their merits. Compared with systematic learning, cramming is obviously less time-consuming in learning new knowledge, which seems to be good.
This
is because people choose to skip the part to decode, signify and translate the meaning into our
brain
, which hinder the information from accessing into long-term memory. Namely, the memory it retains is only for
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hort-term one.
As a result
, the short time the information is planted in our
brain
, the faster it will be wiped out from our mind. Worse than, the more knowledge they try to cram, the more information they will forget, which brings a vicious cycle and inevitably, discourage learning motivation and autonomy. Meaningful learning, or systematic learning,
on the other hand
, is even not the case of it. It can complement all shortcomings that memorizing one contains.
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, the reason why the latter doesn't work out is that it neglects the cognitive process, which is arguably the essence in human learning. When people learning new things,
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euron in our
brain
will stretch out attempting to connect with one another to create a transmitting network in our
brain
. Namely, while we are stimulated with something novel, we tend to not just find the relationship between them but aim to connect them
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That is
how we signify the idea and find the cause of learning it, and we
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therefore
can apply the knowledge we learned into practical skills and
further
solve the issue we meet in our daily life. All things considered, cramming itself is just like taking medicine without knowing what it is, which is dangerous and ridiculous. Everything comes from a reason, knowing the cause of learning is the only way to bringing us a better learner in our life.
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