The variable of time
Another post on e-clippings talks about the “spacing effect”. To fragment his quote borrowed from wikipedia even more:
“…you will be much more likely to remember it if the exposures are repeated over a longer span of time...
My doctoral advisor always had little nuggets of wisdom throughout the three years I supported his courses and one of them was that TIME is one of the certain variables in learning. Of course as I write this, I realize that it works both ways—we are more likely to remember concepts and ideas presented over time and when we have taken some time apart from the same concepts and ideas, we are less likely to remember them.
“…Time, cruel time
Runs along.
And so as I
Couping up with time.
Time…
That time
Which time & again times us
To race the time. …” excerpt from Pausal Time, arghyaraj chanda
