alt Hacker NewsSocrates did not favored "scientific method" nor anything close to it. And took issue with writing itself as it reduces power of the memory.
And to be fair, we did lost the "technology" of memorization. We are not capable to create easy to remember texts, because we are not trying to.
> And to be fair, we did lost the "technology" of memorization. We are not capable to create easy to remember texts, because we are not trying to.
One of the more impressive Taskmaster (British humor gameshow) tasks was the memorization one. The contestants were given the task to recite a non-standard deck of cards in order after 5 minutes of looking at them.
https://youtu.be/aSQnWQUyekk