Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

That EP has learned to like his neighbors without ever learning who they are points to how many of our basic day-to-day actions are guided by implicit values and judgments, independent of declarative memory.

Rather than associate the words with images, she associates them with feelings.

Dr. Joseph Mayer Rice toured public schools in thirty-six cities, he came away appalled at what he saw, calling one New York City school “the most dehumanizing institution that I have ever laid eyes upon, each child being treated as if he possessed a memory and the faculty of speech, but no individuality, no sensibilities, no soul.”

When the point of reading is, as it was for Peter of Ravenna, remembering, you approach a text very differently than most of us do today.

“I don’t use the word ‘memory’ in my class because it’s a bad word in education,” says Matthews. “You make monkeys memorize, whereas education is the ability to retrieve information at will and analyze it. But you can’t have higher-level learning—you can’t analyze—without retrieving information.” And you can’t retrieve information without putting t

Song is the ultimate structuring device for language.

Much of the chaos that our brains filter out is words, because more often than not, the actual language that conveys an idea is just window dressing.

The Art of Memory,

“The realization that composing depended on a well-furnished and securely available memory formed the basis of rhetorical education in antiquity,” writes Mary Carruthers.