Meaningful Learning

Unfortunately, students in Saudi Arabia depending on memorization rather than understading the content of their books , regardless the international schools. So, that is why education in K.S.A is poor. Understading and discussing will make the information remain in the long term memory. While memorizing will just remain it in the short- term memory. If you want to test what I said, try to memorize the information for a test, and see if you would remember it after the test. would you be able to remember it after one day pass or not? So, this is a [problem that we have here. To solve it, we have first to make sure that the teachers are well- trained in teaching. So, Meaningful learning (understanding) is better than Rote learning (memorization and remembering). Actually, remembering is the first step in the Meaningful Learning; so it important too. So, I hope for the next years, education in Saudi Arabia will be improved. (I'm just hoping )