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If you want to ruin students’ moods, just ask them to memorize something. They argue that there’s no reason to bother because you can find everything on the internet in seconds. A child’s motivation naturally depends on the balance of effort and benefit. Therefore, you must give them a good reason to make the effort. But is there any advantage to memorizing something when we all have access to all the world’s knowledge at any time? Yes, for several reasons.
