There's no use taking in important information if you can't recall it when you need it. And here traditional schooling methods are archaic. Tens of thousands of students around the world right now are taking notes. They're writing down words line by line. Or in some languages, column by column. But the brain doesn't work that way. It does not store information in neat lines or columns. The brain stores information on its treelike dendrites. It stores information by pattern and association. So the more you can work in with the brain's own memory-method, the easier and faster you'll learn.