Wise Words From 50 Cent About The Educational System

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He's right about people only remembering things for exams. I don't remember most of the stuff I "learned" this semester after I took the exam. I only remember what I was interested in.
Here trying to make a specific case out of this, but if you were to read a book you wouldn't remember everything, only certain parts or enough to summarize it, basically by telling someone what you deemed important.

You do the same thing with names and details as well when it comes to certain things.

If I read the bie once and were able to behave totally as said on the first read then I'd be a saint.
 

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If you're only memorizing shyt to pass exams, why bother in the first place?

It takes more than strict memory to pass exams. You have to reason in most exams. But it's all connected. The people whom can memory well can usually reason well too.
 

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I'm pretty sure retention is important if you are going into the field you studied
If a doctor had an interview for a hospital and told them he doesn't remember shyt from med school, the hospital would probably look at him like :dahell:

You can't compare Undergrad to Professional school though. I did pretty well in college and don't remember shyt from it, but the way Professional schools are structured (Med/Law/ etc.), they teach you the subjects (and BURN them in to your brain) in ways that you'll never forget. I've never been a great student, more of a crammer that somehow manages to get good grades, but even if I wanted to I could never forget most of the stuff I've learned in law school. Professional schools like Med School and Law School are structured differently than undergrad, the comparison is inappropriate.
 

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You can't compare Undergrad to Professional school though. I did pretty well in college and don't remember shyt from it, but the way Professional schools are structured (Med/Law/ etc.), they teach you the subjects (and BURN them in to your brain) in ways that you'll never forget. I've never been a great student, more of a crammer that somehow manages to get good grades, but even if I wanted to I could never forget most of the stuff I've learned in law school. Professional schools like Med School and Law School are structured differently than undergrad, the comparison is inappropriate.

I remember lots of stuff my Finance undergrad. You probably weren't in a field you weren't really interested in or don't apply it professionally.
 

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It takes more than strict memory to pass exams. You have to reason in most exams. But it's all connected. The people whom can memory well can usually reason well too.

Yes, reasoning implies understanding. Meaning you learned something :heh:
 

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I remember lots of stuff my Finance undergrad. You probably weren't in a field you weren't really interested in or don't apply it professionally.

I was a Business Management major but I knew I was going to law school anyway. The point is that Professional schools like Med School and Law School are structured differently than undergrad, you labor exhaustively over seemingly minute details and before you know it (almost without your consent) you've become a lawyer/doctor.

For instance, in my first year of law school I never thought I'd be able to remember case names. I'm almost done now and at this point I can read a case name once and I'll never have to look it up again. It's on some Mr. Miyagi clockwise wiping thing (you know the scene I'm talking about), and first you're just bytching because it seems laborious/unnecessary but after a while you realized that you're beginning to master the field without even intending to.
 
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he's right to an extent but at the same time why is he paying for his sons education if he don't believe in the school system in the first place? i know him and his son don't have the best relationship in the world but im just saying.

i believe education is the key and school is the lock.
 
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