It is more important for students to understanding the ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts.
Some people say that learning facts are crucial factors for people to improve their knowledge. Other people do not agree with the assertion. When it comes to knowledge, there is nothing more important things than understanding because of creativity and solutions of the complex problems.
To begin with, understanding the ideas and concepts enables people more creativity. It is general that understanding and flexible thinking are important factors to improve creativity. Just memorizing the facts has limit for application of the facts. For example, Korean education has put important on memorizing facts in order to develop countries dramatically. It was good method to develop the technologies at a certain stage. However, in the long run, it does not good method because we cannot apply the fact to make creative things. This is limit of the Korea technology due to the lack of creativity. On the other hand, American has put importance on understanding ideas and facts to apply the facts to creating new things. As a result, America leads to the world technologies. This shows that understanding drew more creativity results.
On top of that, it helps people to solve the complex problems which cannot be solved by just learning facts. It is true that as society is getting more complex, the problems are getting more perplexed. In this circumstance, memorizing facts can not help to solve problems. For instance, there was a boy who suffers from violence of peers. This problem should deal with various angles like mental and environments. Therefore, to solve this problems, we need lot`s of knowledge from diverse field which not just memorizing facts but understanding the ideas and concept because memorizing facts can not apply these kinds of the problems that should approach different views. This shows that we should focus on understanding concepts and ideas to solve problems rather than learning facts.
In conclusion, it might be important to memorizing lots of information due to tons of the knowledge. However, it cannot apply to other things and it just dead knowledge. Therefore, understanding concepts and ideas is more important to be able to be more creativity and solve complex problems.