Highlighting Is a Waste of Time: The Best and Worst Learning Techniques Some of the most common strategies for retaining knowledge are the least effective, according to a new report In a world as fast-changing and full of information as our own, every one of us — from schoolchildren to college students to working adults — needs to know how to learn well. Yet evidence suggests that most of us don’t
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