Adrian Bejan | Take notes by hand !, from Thermodynamics

In this video, taking notes by hand is recommended because it is how you learn. Stay away from flipping slides on the screen, since that technique is easy for the presenter and of zero value to the receiver. And remember that learning comes from your own handwriting and from teaching yourself by taking your own notes and cramming long at night before an exam is called stupid, like deflating your own car tires, since if you took notes in class, you go to bed. In the morning, everything is organized so you can regurgitate it during the exam. Teach your children to take notes by hand, and stay away from machine teaching, machine learning, machine this, and machine that, because there is no better or cheaper machine than the newborn in your head and your brain. Robots are expensive things that will never reach the level of human ingenuity, since a machine has a finite number of degrees of freedom invented by the maker. In contrast, animal design has an untold, unknown number of degrees of freedom, which is why it is weird, and every feature is massaged to perfection from the hair strand to the thumbnail. You cannot beat greater freedom; it is cheap and effortless, and that is the secret behind real learning.

• Take notes by hand because learning happens when you teach yourself, and your own handwriting is the path that puts the class into your head so that you can use it later without panic.

• Stay away from classes that flip slides on the screen, since that looks easy for the presenter but adds zero value to the receiver compared with writing your own version.

• Do not cram long at night before an exam; go to bed, because the notes you took have already been organized for the morning when you need to regurgitate them during the exam.

• Teach your children to take notes by hand and stay away from machine teaching and machine learning, since the newborn with head and brain is the better and cheaper machine.

• Remember why robots cannot beat human ingenuity: a machine has a finite number of degrees of freedom invented by the maker, while animal design has an unknown number, and every feature is massaged to perfection, so you cannot beat greater freedom.

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