Wired magazine's article on memory and Jill Price is an excellent image of current efforts to reform curriculum. Price's amazing memory is not a result of any anatomical difference; rather, her ability to remember every specific of her past is a result of an extensive self-constructed knowledge system with connections that are regularly reinforced.

As students and teachers, we should remember that the patterns and connections between the ideas that we learn and teach are far more important than the individual ideas.