Memorization and Understanding

What is Understanding?

Memorization is a key component of learning. Without it, people would literally be unable to learn anything as nothing would be stored within their brains. Memorization is an extremely vital and critical component of learning as people need it to learn things. But, without understanding, memorization is fruitless. Understanding is the ability to think deeply and for a long time about a subject and being able to get to the root of the problem and understanding what’s really going on. Memorization is the ability to learn, while understanding is knowing why you’re learning what you’re learning. Memorization and understanding are both necessary in learning anything. 

Reviews

[JayG]

Dunno...replace the word "memorization" with "breathing" and it mostly works. The only exception is "Memorization is the ability to learn," but that's inaccurate and simplistic. Learning is a lot more than simple memorization. It requires the ability to use the data intelligently. I know lots of dumb people with good memories.

You're generalizing to the point where each line is a true statement, but it only states the obvious. And that's true for most of your work. It's a series of declarative statements. But data isn't story.

Readers want raw meat, not pablum. They want an emotional, not an informational experience. Digging into the techniques of the Fiction-Writing profession would be time well-spent, because we learn only the basics of nonfiction in school.