>>14394548Learning calculus is exactly like learning Chinese. You learn one by writing down characters over and over and you learn the other by doing exercises over and over. Experience is nothing but a sum total of all the things you've memorized.
Being able to make connections is also something you memorize. You memorize it by seeing how the connection is made on multiple occasions. If you never see a particular type of connection made anywhere, you will never have an insight that you can make such a connection. If you see a connection made in different places you will start making that connection too. To learn something after witnessing it multiple times is to memorize.
>without building the ability to draw inferences and connections You can't memorize a couple of Chinese characters and expect yourself to infer the rest. Or rather, you can, but you will end up creating your own Chinese language. In order to learn standard Chinese you simply have to go though all of the characters and all of grammar and you have to do it multiple times over by reading a lot of Chinese.
