Think Education

Memory and the Impact of Learning In this episode of the Think Education podcast, Chris and Judith talk about memory, the past, the present and the future.  We ponder the student experience, motivated by our own understanding of what impacted us along our respective journeys. The impact of a good teacher should not underestimated, nor should the road less travelled.  The intangibles have been instrumental in our development, even if they are hard to quantify. The value of a university is based on reputation, credibility, accreditation and so a lot of the value for the student is based on the past but the degree will be awarded in the future. But we don’t know where we are going to be in the future despite how many of us talk about being ‘future focused.’  We are assigning a future value to a degree that rests on the past.  This led us to rambling on about how we assign value and what function does memory play in this?  We talked about things that impacted us over the course of our careers; who were those teac