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Learning by heart has advantages like allowing for quick recall of basic facts and achieving good grades on exams that focus on rote learning. However, it has disadvantages like not encouraging deep understanding and being difficult for long passages. While learning by heart is useful for memorizing short facts, solely relying on it does not develop skills in applying knowledge to real situations. Overall, understanding both the pros and cons of learning by heart can help achieve academic goals.

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Learning by heart has advantages like allowing for quick recall of basic facts and achieving good grades on exams that focus on rote learning. However, it has disadvantages like not encouraging deep understanding and being difficult for long passages. While learning by heart is useful for memorizing short facts, solely relying on it does not develop skills in applying knowledge to real situations. Overall, understanding both the pros and cons of learning by heart can help achieve academic goals.

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Learning by heart

Learning by heart is memorizing facts and notes without any thought. Such
kind of learning is widely used both by teachers and students in our country.
Besides, it is said that learning by heart is a necessary step in learning certain
subjects. However, some scholars are not in favor of learning by heart. Hence, we
need to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of learning by heart.
Learning by heart has positive effects on our academic life. Firstly, if we
learn alphabet, numbers, and multiplication tables by heart, we do not take a lot of
time to remember them. Secondly, if we memorize notes, facts, poems, definitions
and theories, it takes faster to put them in the brain. This is because we do not need
to emphasize the importance of deep understanding over the recall of facts. If we
can write them exactly in the examination, we will get full marks and good grades.
In fact, our examinations focus on rote learning indirectly. Thirdly, we can have an
ability to recall basic facts quickly after memorizing the content. We can also get
the foundational knowledge about the subject. However, there are certain aspects
against learning by heart. To begin with, learning by heart does not encourage deep
understanding the content of the subject, but it is based on repetition. As a result, if
we cannot repeat some facts again and again, we will forget them. Secondly,
learning by heart is ok for short notes and facts, but we can find it difficult to focus
on long passages as well as sums. In working out the sums, it is not easy to connect
the theories and formula. Thirdly, learning by heart does not encourage us to
improve our skills of subjects. This is because we can recite some definitions and
theories, but we do not know how to apply them in real situations. For example, we
can recite the definition of “work done ", but we do not know how to apply it.
In conclusion, in spite of the fact that there are certain aspects for learning
by heart, there are also some facts against it in our academic life. Anyway, if we
understand the pros and cons of learning by heart, we can exploit it to help achieve
our academic goals in life.
Skills and knowledge today's youths should have

We are now living in the 21st Century, which is known as the age of
information technology. So we need some skills and knowledge to survive in this
challenging age. Skill is an ability to do an activity or job well, especially because
we have learned and practiced it. Knowledge is the information, facts and skills
that we have acquired through experience or education. Today's youths need to
have different kinds of skills and knowledge to lead a successful life.
There are different kinds of skills. They are language skills, interpersonal
skills, social skills, communicative skills, technical skills, information technology
(IT) skills, and problem solving skills, etc. When it comes to knowledge, there are
several kinds of knowledge. They are computer knowledge, general knowledge,
regional knowledge, personal knowledge, thorough knowledge, scientific
knowledge, specialist knowledge,etc. Today's youths should have several kinds of
skills to face the challenges of life. Firstly, today's youths should have language
skills. Nowadays many well paying jobs require language skills. If they have an
ability to use a language, they will get a well paid job. Then, today's youths should
have communicative skills, interpersonal skills and social skills. With these skills,
they will know how to communicate with people, how to deal with people and how
to get on well with people. Other skills today's youths should have are technical
skills and IT skills. If they have an ability to use a computer and have knowledge
about IT, they will be able to store, organize and send out information. Apart from
these skills, there are some kinds of knowledge that today's youths should have.
Computer knowledge is important for today's youths. There is no place in the
world where people do not use a computer. Another knowledge today's youths
should have is general knowledge. If they have knowledge about different subjects,
they will be able to cope with different situations. Not only that, today's youths
should have scientific knowledge. If they have knowledge about science, they will
be able to understand about the universe.
In conclusion, today's youths need to have several skills and knowledge to
live in the 21st Century as it is a fast-developing age. Thus, the skills and
knowledge mentioned above are essential for today's youths to fare well in this
age.

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