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Many of my students (high schoolers) believe that if they can look something up, there is no point in "knowing" it. As if learning and storing knowledge is a bit of a waste of time.
What they don't realize (and a lot of adults as well) is that you can only make connections and have new insights based on what you can think about. If, for example, you have to look up "Primo Levi" and "The Machine Stops" then how could you ever expect to make connections about those seemingly unconnected things?
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