The Imperative of Cross-Disciplinary Knowledge: Why Rote Memorization is Insufficient in an Age of Complexity
Pure rote memorization has become inadequate in addressing the 21st-century demand for cognitive flexibility. While evolution historically prioritized information storage to compensate for human cerebral immaturity at birth (altriciality), modern neuroscience demonstrates that learning "by heart" constrains critical thinking and fails to facilitate the transfer of learning across novel domains.