When you misbehaved in school, did your teacher make you write out lines on the blackboard a hundred times?
Maybe you recall having to write lines such as these over and over:
“I will not talk in class.”
“I will not run in the corridors.”
Or this famous blackboard gag from the TV show “The Simpsons”:
“I will not waste chalk” (while wasting chalk to write it).
Of course, our teachers made us do this as punishment, but there may have been method in their madness.
Science has found that writing things down—specifically by hand—significantly improves memory retention. When we write by hand, the information is “baked” into our neural pathways better than if we type the same information. And the more often we write a certain thing down, the more likely we are to remember it long-term.
I wonder if we can use these findings to help us remember God’s Word better?
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