Why is repetition and review important in education?
Repetition and review are essential because they are the name of the game in any kind of education. Constant reviewing allows average students to learn more effectively and score significantly higher, as seen when a mathematics professor used ongoing review to raise testing levels above the national average.
Les teaches that when it comes to any kind of education, repetition and review are the name of the game. He illustrates this by recalling that the academic community was all shook up by a mathematics professor in Oklahoma, at Rose Junior College in Oklahoma City, who took average mathematics students and raised their testing level significantly. Academia wondered how he was getting these students to learn math and score so much better than the national average. According to Les, what it amounted to was that he was constantly reviewing.