Assimilative memory, or, How to attend and never forget / by A. Loisette.
- Loisette, A. (Alphonse)
- Date:
- 1899
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Assimilative memory, or, How to attend and never forget / by A. Loisette. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![get theirs shortly after. In fact, a student or a man in ad- vanced years who has really mastered any book so that he never has to refer to it again is a wonder. Take the mem- ories of members of the learned professions—they are usually only reference memories. They know where to find the coveted knowledge, but they do not possess it or retam it in their minds. On the other hand, the student who masters a book by my method really knows the con- tents of it, and he is thus enabled to devote to other purposes 07i enormous amount of twie in the future that other people have to spend in perpetually refreshing their super- ficial acquirements. Moreover, the average student who has carried out all my instructions can even now learn as much by my Method in any stated time as he could learn without my Method, and with equal thoroughness in many, many times as long a period ! And if any one who has been pressed for time, or who has been in a panic about an impending examination, or who has been too much troubled with Discontinuity, too ill in general health, or too idle, to do more than superficially glance at my lessons —if any such person doubts his competency to accom- plish as much as the diligent student of average ability has done, then let him turn back and really and truly MASTER my System [for he does not even know what my System is until he has faithfully carried out to the very letter all my instructions, unless he has been a pupil of my oral lec- tures], and then and not before he will probably find that the achievements of the average diligent student of my System are quite within the easy range and scope of his own powers. (3) In regard to the subject matter of the book, you do not care to occupy yourself with what you are already familiar with, and in most books there are a great many things that you already know. In many works, too, there is a great deal of padding-matter inserted to increase the bulk of the book, and possessing no permanent interest. The expositions and explanations which enable you to U7idersta7id the new matter usually take up a large part of the book, and sometimes much the largest part of it, and are not to be memorised, but only understood with a sole view to appreciate the valuable and important parts](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28134096_0166.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
