we only remember 20 percent of what we are taught at school

[antipunt]

For some reason, this is -both- surprising and expected.

Not sure if that makes sense.

 

[101194]

School isn't really designed to teach you anything as much as it is designed to prepare you for working life.

Hence why the first thing they teach you is to be on time, be quiet and follow the rules.

Woowoo brainwashing!

Social Slavery! Woot! Who wants Goverment Cheese?!

 

[la-le-lu-li-lo]

i could tell you the two classes that i actually recall information from.
psychology [I&II, AP] and english literature [11th&12th grade].

just about everything else has been forgotten. and i was a good student too.
paid attention and everything. :[

 

[crudus]

Make sense. If you hadn't thought about something in years then why would your brain spend energy on remembering it? That's how the show "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader" was able to not go bankrupt (that and all the smart people went to real game shows).

 

[bue519]

Source of this fact?

Anyway, that sounds about right, when you consider just how much you are taught over those 12 years. So no, I don't think it's a problem. I think it's normal.

Hmmmmm More stats with no sources to back them up. I think I might need some more facts before I form an hypothesis on such an opinion.

Sorry guys i can't exactly remember the source,it was some teen help site-i thinks it was called high school survival,it had all the proof and evidence there

Well, that doesn't really help. Mainly because most of the info on those sights is a load of bs. So unless you have some Gallup polls that you can show me then.....

 

[wewontdie11]

I'm lucky if I can remember that much?

 

[NeutralDrow]

That sounds like a load of BS, honestly. I'd like to know what their methods are, what their starting hypothesis was, etc.

it's a decent average to consider, however I say average, there are always the odd cases where one will retain much much more, and most of what we learn is eventually broken down and built up into more of a " collective mess" of things that can come and go as needed " or not, but then pop back to the surface weeks after you needed it... I HATE that )

so there are also other forms of memory to contend with, from active to passive memory, subconscious memory, sensory memory, associated memory.....all we see or do can fall into one or more categories as well.

Precisely for this reason.

I know I've retained more than a fifth of everything I learned in the places I spent half my life in for half my life. Just because I can't specifically recall what my 1st grade class taught me (though I can remember at one point watching Scamper the Penguin) doesn't mean I didn't learn it.

Make sense. If you hadn't thought about something in years then why would your brain spend energy on remembering it? That's how the show "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader" was able to not go bankrupt (that and all the smart people went to real game shows).

That show is completely full of shit, incidentally. Being smarter than a fifth grader is a losing condition...

 

[Assassin Xaero]

I blame not remembering calculus on my teacher not knowing how to teach... hardest math class in the school and all she did was give us the examples the book gave us and then gave us our homework... she even rushed through a lesson one day to play with her new computer...