The document discusses education at universities and how it traditionally worked by bringing together young people and books with the hope that knowledge would pass between them, similar to how young people would gather at inns and taverns to socialize. It notes the similarity in the approaches despite different intentions, with education relying on proximity and socialization to facilitate learning rather than direct instruction.

1. “And therefore education at the University mostly
worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of
young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and
hoping that something would pass from one to the
other, while the actual young people put themselves
in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the
same reason.”
― Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times

2. Excellence Expected

3. ‘Memory is the
residue of thought.’
Daniel Willingham

4. ‘Retrieval beats exposure’
Peps Mccrea

5. A desirable difficulty is a
learning task that requires a
considerable
but desirable amount of
effort, thereby improving long-
term performance.
Robert Bjork, 1994