“Understand. Don’t Memorise”: Why Nobel-winning physicist Richard Feynman’s advice works better than cramming for exams
Richard Feynman | Image source: Caltech Digital Collections The night before an exam is rarely about learning. It is about survival—highlighted notes, half-remembered formulas, and the quiet hope that memory will last just long enough. Generations of students have relied on this ritual. Richard Feynman, the Nobel Prize–winning physicist, thought it was the wrong place…