Hey guys, I've spent some time looking this up, and I've even read a few other things on reddit, but I haven't found an answer that makes a lot of sense.
As the question states, I'm curious why education is so heavily focused on memorization in school. Make no mistake, I'm not asking about things like 2+2 or the alphabet. I totally understand that you need a basic level of knowledge to draw from for everyday use.
I'm more curious why I was forced to memorize how to graph a polynomial function on my TI 83 calculator in applied math, or all 6 of the gas laws and when/how to use them in chemistry, or a kinematics equation for physics.
As someone who wasn't diagnosed with ADHD until the age of 26, I always struggled with memorizing long equations like these. It felt very unfair that I was seen as stupid, (even called so at least twice) by some teachers in highschool. I'm perfectly capable of doing these equations, but I could never remember the order of operations when writing them out.
For example, I can't remember that the combined gas law is (P1V1)/T1=(P2V2)/T2 without reading it, but I know what each part is, how to find it, and how to use them in the equation.
Now that I'm an HVAC tech, it's even worse with the number of codes I'm forced to memorize for my job, which is absolutely insane to me as I have a physical code book that I can look that shit up in.
Never made sense to me, and with my ADHD, it always seemed insurmountable to try and memorize dozens of formulas that long without being able to reference anything. Just bugs that I'm seen as stupid, when I can't memorizing things for the life of me. Why isn't being to apply that knowledge good enough?
Submitted July 10, 2025 at 06:24PM by Main-Environment-177 https://ift.tt/DhOt69l
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