Yeah. I think a lot of folks make attribution errors. They don't remember how much introductory work is memorizing stuff, because they haven't done introductory work in 10-30 years, so they are like 40+ and don't understand how all their skills and experience make them not have to memorize anything... because they already know tons of stuff.

It's like... how do you learn a foreign language? You memorize the words, the phrases, and learn the grammar to take the words you learned and put them in the correct sequence... but folks today are like 'nah I'd rather just use my phone to translate it all and then claim I am speak a foreign language'.

Our issue is our education system isn't teaching people memorization anymore and hasn't done that for 20-30 years. That technique was already 'out' when i was a middle schooler, and frankly I had to go back and re-learn things later in life because well, I never memorized it as a kid because my school refused to teach us to do that. Like English Language Grammar. Today I doubt kids even know what grammar let alone can identify the basic parts of speech and their functions in a sentence.

Education today is so far removed from the basics. It's funny... in countries where they do focus on rote learning... their outcomes are better. Because they actually understand knowledge in hierarchical and you can't learn advanced things without strong foundations of the basic skills that require memorization via repetition...