Never mind learning by doing, how about learning by dreaming?
According to a study carried out at Harvard Medical School, dreaming is the brain's way of learning and making sense of the world.
People who nap and dream about a task they have just learned perform it better when they wake up than those who don't sleep at all or don't report any associated dreams.
A group of 99 volunteers were asked to sit in front of a computer screen and learn the layout of a three-dimensional maze so that they could find their way to a landmark - a tree - when they were dropped at a random location within the virtual space five hours later. Those who were allowed to take a nap and also remembered dreaming of the task found the tree in less time.
So, if you fall asleep during your next English lesson, just tell the teacher you're memory processing.
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