[chii]

> I understand why that's a common practice in education. Maybe it's time to change.

not that i disagree, but what would you have it change to?

The fact that there's no need to memorize anything any more, means that any tests which allows the use of tech (like the internet, or chatGPT) to retrieve data, means that students no longer need to commit things to long term memory.

However, having the capability, and be able to recall facts when needed, and at high speed, is something that is foundational to higher creative thoughts.

This higher, creative thought, is not really easy to test, so the memorization is the proxy.

I do not know what form education (and the testing of it) would take on, if tools like chatGPT is allowed to be used.

[BlueTemplar]

In my experience (from exams allowing full access to computers and the Internet (for information retrieval, not communication with other people)) you need to memorise the most important concepts and patterns anyway, or you will be too slow during exams. YMMV.