UCLA Professor Says Conventional Wisdom on Study Habits Is All Washed Up

An anonymous reader writes "Taking notes during class? Topic-focused study? A consistent learning environment? According to Robert Bjork, director of the UCLA Learning and Forgetting Lab, distinguished professor of psychology, and massively renowned expert on packing things in your brain in a way that keeps them from leaking out, all are three are exactly opposite the best strategies for learning."

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Forget everything you know about learning.

[GoodNewsJimDotCom]

Thanks to the old system, it was easy.

Meh, I prefer Bjork's earlier work

[MrEricSir]

Bjork should stick to making creepy pop music and leave education to the professionals.

Re:Do Not Want

[tehcyder]

I can say that if you want to really learn, at first you need to learn the very basic moves, and repeat them till your mind explodes from boredom. In the meanwhile your also learn from the instructor the philosophy, the logic why it makes sense, some story behind each move, and so on.

I skipped all the "yes grasshopper" king fu bollocks and just bought a spetnatz DVD showing you how to slice someone's head in half with an entrenching tool at twenty yards.