Remembering the Forgotten Art of Memory. American Educator . Winter 1992, pp. Memorization has almost become an antique of former learning techniques in the United State's Educational System.
Students have problems even remembering the very basic information from the time in school.
Some people say that the need for the memorization of even basic information is going to become an antique of the past due to the increase of information technology and processing. One of the main arguments that the authors of this article seemed to put forward was that students need to be taught how to memorize. Since many educators have gotten away from memorization within the classroom, students simply do not know how to memorize. Simply knowing how to memorize ideas and information is not the only answer. Mastropieri and Scruggs forward the viewpoint that it is not only important to know how to memorize, but it is even more important to understand what they are memorizing.