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  • 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.

    Ursula Goodenough (2000). “The Sacred Depths of Nature”, p.21, Oxford University Press, USA