Ooohh, I hate thinking thoughts and then forgetting to write them down and then I think I had a thought and it was a good thought but I'll be damned if I can remember that thought.
We forget sounds! I forget the precise noise of a telephone that I remember playing several days a day at the reception of the school I worked at in Japan. I remember trying to ingrain it in my brain because it was irritating and that one day I would look back and it would make me smile. I forgot the annoying jingle they kept playing outside the computer store.
Another contradiction coming up. Saying we forget sounds, I remember the sound of people's voices. When I read something they have written, I picture the person and read it in my head but it takes on their tone, accent and inflections.
I always thought that songs are really easy to remember. The tune, the beat and the words. They are constantly replayed over and over, even songs you don't like are generally fairly easy to sing along to. This is what they should do with the school curriculum. Then far more people would retain more of the knowledge that is delivered. I remember the words of songs from years back, and I am sure you do too. Then if they took my advice on board, ten years down the line I would still remember the rules of grammar, which when teaching I realised I didn't know, I just use them automatically (if someone asks the question why? I don't know the answer. It 'sounds' wrong isn't really adequate for an advanced level student). I'd also know a little more history and a little more geography.
This raises another question. Do we only remember when we find interesting, or is it that we read something time and time and eventually it takes up a part of our brain and it cannot be erased?
Oh, I should have been a philospher, I think I would be good. I read Sophie's world and loved it, so I purchased a simple Intro to Philosophy book which I still haven't read, two years on. But damn, eventually I will get arouns to it!
Do you notice how I seem to think I would be good at everything? Funny huh? Well, not amusing at all really. Tee hee. See, a mere minor laugh.
Now, be off with you, this gal has got the final installment of Potter to read.