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My point is simple: If you decide that long-term retention
is one of the essential goals, then it dramatically changes
how you go about teaching. For starters, you find yourself
spending a huge amount of time and effort on mnemonics. It
doesn't matter how true or important or elegant something is,
if it will not be remembered.
The textbooks are, by and large, terrible at this. A good
teacher can help a lot, by passing on the mnemonics, the
lore, the rules of thumb, et cetera. However, it doesn't
have to be that way. There's no reason why the textbooks
couldn't include a ton of mnemonics.