01 JAN 2010 by ideonexus
Education Provides Hooks to Hang New Knowledge
Human memory, they say, is like a coat closet: the most enduring outcome of a formal education is that it creates rows of coat hooks so that later on, when you come upon a new piece of information, you have a hook to hang it on. Without a hook, the new information falls on the floor.This is a great metaphor for MemexPlex.