Evald Vasilyevich Ilyenkov. The school should learn to think (№ 284350)

The presence of "absolute" mechanical memory - not an advantage and, conversely, the inferiority in relation to one of the most important and the dodgy mechanisms of our brain, our psyche. This is the mechanism that actively "forgets" everything that directly to the implementation of higher mental functions, everything that is not related to the logical flow of our thoughts. Useless, not associated with active mental activity, the brain tries to "forget" to plunge to the bottom of the subconscious to leave the mind free and ready for higher activities...
This "natural" mechanism of the brain, guarding the higher departments of a bark of aggression, from the flood of chaotic mass of incoherent information, and destroys and cripples "cramming." The brain is violently forced to "remember" all the things that he actively tries to "forget" to lock under the lock so that it doesn't hurt to "think". It "hammered", slamina his stubborn resistance, raw, unprocessed and undigested (thinking) material.
Wonderfully delicate mechanisms that nature created, thus, deteriorate, iskaiciuota barbaric-rough intervention. And many years later some wise educator blame on "nature"...