高效学习的秘密 Why We Only Learn When We Repeat

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学习中你是不是也有这样的疑问:为什么不断的重复却可以学到更多?没有任何事物可以永远保持活跃,除非我们不断重复。

One of the most obvious but striking things about a modern education is that you go through it only once.

You show up every day for a number of years, get filled up with knowledge and then, once you're twenty-one or so, you stopand begin the rest of your life.

Before modern education took off, the mightiest educational systems in the world were religions.

It was religions that taught us about ethics, purpose and the meaning of life.

And one of the interesting aspects of their pedagogy was that they were obsessed with repetition.

For them, it was absurd to imagine ever learning anything if you went through it only once.

The whole basis of religious education rested upon repetition.

Five times a day, as a Muslim one was to rehearse the central tenets of Islam; seven times a day as a Christian Benedictine monk, one was to revisit the lessons of scripture.

As an orthodox Jew, 300 days a year were marked out for commemoration and ritual repetition of ideas in the Torah.

While as a Zen priest, one would be inducted to sit cross-legged and meditate up to twelve times between daybreak and nightfall.

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