I was a lecturer at a university in Melbourne (AU) for over 3 years. I quit after being told I could not fail students whose work was way below par, as well as finding them directly plagiarizing (copypasting) work from the Internet. This was a design school, and the students they would not let me fail were all overseas students. The problem is that if these students get below a certain score they are "sent home" and the massive amounts of money they pay the university is gone. The thing that really horrifies me is that the universities are more tied to the money they get than what the degree they give stands for!

To me it all comes down to relational memory. That is, personally, I don't remember a lot of things exactly, but I do remember how to find them out. To me this is not a problem of not having such a good memory, but more of having so much information pushed at me every day, that I have to find a way to "compress" it in my mind, to remember the relations. At the same time, I must admit, that I do think that I should do some memory practice sometimes, just more as 'brain exercise' than anything else. PS: It's called "becoming a cyborg".