A lot of schooling is based on the ability to remember, not the ability to understand and apply. And as a result, there are a lot of people who are coming out of school with good grades, but they don't have the practical awareness on how to apply the concepts they remember to conditions that they haven't seen before. Understanding the concept however, means that even if you swap oranges out for apples, the math is the same.
Being fed the information in easy to absorb formats, may aid our memories, but it is likely costing our understanding, because what we hold in our head, isn't ours. The act of creating for ourselves brings in a sunk cost of time and energy, and connects us emotionally to our creation. But, when information is so readily available as it is now, the value of it is very low in our mind. And, even if we can regurgitate facts and figures, our ability to apply it practically, is heavily reduced.
Dear @tarazkp !
I agree with you!
I think now we feel we understand information by remembering only visual images!
I look at your picture and feel that you are good-looking, but do you feel that you are not good-looking?😄