Evald Vasilyevich Ilyenkov. The school should learn to think (№ 284345)

As proved by numerous experiments, the "memory" of a person generally keeps the dealt card owner throughout his life. However, some knowledge is stored in the brain, so to speak, in an active state at hand, and always when I need to be with an effort of will caused on the light of consciousness. This is knowledge that is closely related to active is sensual-subject activity of the person. This "active" memory is reminiscent of a well-organized workplace - a person takes here the desired object, the tool, the material is not looking, is not "remembering" specifically, what muscles need to move. Another thing - the knowledge assimilated by the brain without any connection with its primary activity - so to speak, "in reserve". French psychologists, for example, by the special influences on the brain old illiterate woman made her hours to recite ancient Greek poetry, neither the content nor the meaning of which she did not understand and "remember" only because once, many years ago, a diligent high-school student memorized these verses in it, and the worker-Mason "remembered" and just drew on the paper bizarre twists of cracks in the wall, which he once had to repair.... To "remember" such things, a person has to make an agonizing effort, and do it very rarely and with difficulty. The fact that a huge mass of unnecessary, useless and "not working" information to the brain plunges into a special "dark storage", below the threshold of consciousness. They kept everything a person saw or heard at least once. Special - abnormal - cases, all the trash accumulated in these storerooms for many years, floats on the surface of the higher parts of the cerebral cortex, the light of consciousness. One recalls then suddenly a lot of little things, seemingly, for a long time and finally forgotten. But this happens precisely when the brain is in a stagnant state, often in a state of hypnotic sleep, as in the experiments of the French psychologists. The fact that "oblivion" is not a disadvantage. Just the opposite - "forgetting" a wise exercise of the special mechanisms of the brain guarding the body of thinking (departments the activity of the brain) from flooding unnecessary "information". It is a natural "protective" reaction crust from the senseless and stupid overload. If at one point the strong castles of forgetfulness were torn from the dark storerooms of the memory, all accumulated debris rushed in the higher departments of a bark, and would have made her incapable of "thinking" - to the selection, mapping, inference and "judgment".