| I don't see this as a problem at all. I don't know if remembering the entire body of knowledge by heart is even possible for the average human being It's possible, if you practice. I don't know what schools can do to make sure that the students NEVER FORGET what they learn in a class. And imo to expect that is completely unreasonable. You can't do this, but adults could take some time out of their days to practice what they learned. That way, they will keep retaining what they learned over decades, and the amount of practices should keep going down. This process works well enough, there's little that you've learned a long time ago that you can't pick up again in a relatively short amount of time. Those residual knowledge help make practicing and maintenance of our existing knowledge much easier. We could take advantage of it. Anyway, if you want to retain everything you learned, you should take a look into spaced repetition which is a learning technique that help make knowledge maintenance an efficient process. All that is left is our educational system to recognize that knowledge maintenance is important. |