Spring Break
Veterinary professor shows armadillos love
By: Jessica Henning
Issue date: 8/28/07 Section: News
The book has received terrific reviews from academic sources and readers. Almost all of Amazon.com reviewers have given the book five out of five stars for content.
Klemm said that dealing with students and watching many of them struggle unnecessarily helped inspire him to write this piece.
Even as a teenager, Klemm was curious about memory function. He went to public meetings with his father where he was taught memory gimmicks. He was given a magazine and told to remember details of pages and at the end of the meetings the men could ask him questions about the particulars of the contents.
"I would really dazzle them being able to do this at 15 years old, but I could only do this because I knew the gimmicks," Klemm said.
The professor said one of the most important things to do for memory function is to get plenty of sleep.
"The brain is processing your day's memories while you sleep," he said.
The professor also said that students should not cram because that is the most ineffective way to remember things.
"It also makes you do stupid things," he said. "Things that you know better, but you just can't think straight because you're so tired."
The book contains about 150 ideas for teaching specific things that people can do to improve memory power. A key factor of the book is teaching students how to use a technique called imaging, which involves memorizing things by mentally turning them into pictures.
"My basic philosophy is that everybody can do better than they think they can, but somebody has to show them how," Klemm said.
Klemm said that dealing with students and watching many of them struggle unnecessarily helped inspire him to write this piece.
Even as a teenager, Klemm was curious about memory function. He went to public meetings with his father where he was taught memory gimmicks. He was given a magazine and told to remember details of pages and at the end of the meetings the men could ask him questions about the particulars of the contents.
"I would really dazzle them being able to do this at 15 years old, but I could only do this because I knew the gimmicks," Klemm said.
The professor said one of the most important things to do for memory function is to get plenty of sleep.
"The brain is processing your day's memories while you sleep," he said.
The professor also said that students should not cram because that is the most ineffective way to remember things.
"It also makes you do stupid things," he said. "Things that you know better, but you just can't think straight because you're so tired."
The book contains about 150 ideas for teaching specific things that people can do to improve memory power. A key factor of the book is teaching students how to use a technique called imaging, which involves memorizing things by mentally turning them into pictures.
"My basic philosophy is that everybody can do better than they think they can, but somebody has to show them how," Klemm said.
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