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  • Yurt_Owl@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    What actually is the focus on memorising for? Like even my English lit exams i had to memorise the quotes i was going to use for an essag question i didn’t know yet.

    How does this serve capitalism?

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      10 months ago

      This is a very Mao thing, he hated people being too obsessed with reading and quoting rather than understanding and exploring. I don’t think it’s especially representative of modern China though, which has moved back towards the bourgeois memorization fetishism