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The slow art of pouring something into your head and hoping it sticks.
means To apply your mind to learning a subject, usually through reading, practice, or careful attention.
from From Latin 'studium,' meaning eagerness, zeal, or painstaking devotion — the same root behind 'studious.' It came into English through Old French 'estudie.' The Latin sense was less about textbooks and more about intense enthusiasm; the dusty library connotation came later, once that zeal got channeled into scrolls and lecture halls.
- spaced repetition
- Forgetting then relearning beats cramming for memory
- etymology
- From Latin studium, meaning zeal or eagerness
- testing effect
- Quizzing yourself outperforms rereading every time
- the room
- A study was once a wealthy home's private den
- sleep wins
- Memories consolidate overnight, not at 3am desperate
the apollo program — nasa's intensive effort to put 12 humans on the moon between 1969-1972
oxford tutorial system — one-on-one weekly meetings between student and tutor that define oxford university education since the 1600s
the manhattan project — massive scientific study effort that employed 130,000 people to develop the atomic bomb by 1945