MINI: What do you still remember from school?
The Christian O’Connell Show
GOLD and iHeart Australia
4.7 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Christian is away sick, so while he's away we're taking a look back at some of our favourite bits from the show so far, like when stumbled upon the weird and wacky things we still remember from school. If you have something to add email us! christian@christianoconnell.com.au
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| 0:00.0 | IHart Podcasts. You can hear more. Gold 104.3 podcast, playlist, and listen live on the free IHart app. |
| 0:09.2 | Got anything good? |
| 0:11.1 | Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast. |
| 0:19.1 | Just having a look about this, forgetting and learning curve theory. |
| 0:23.0 | Batsy was just talking about this early from the parents' teacher evening yesterday. |
| 0:26.6 | She had it on Zoom. |
| 0:28.4 | The forgetting and learning curve theory shows that we get better with practice, but quickly |
| 0:32.9 | forget without review. |
| 0:35.4 | When we learn something new, our performance improves with practice. |
| 0:40.4 | Without practice, what we learn fade over time. |
| 0:44.7 | Memory drops quickly soon after learning, then levels out. |
| 0:48.8 | There is a plateauing. |
| 0:50.7 | It's amazing what you can still remember all these years later |
| 0:54.2 | and you've done no reviewing |
| 0:55.8 | or revising in decades. |
| 0:58.9 | Like I can still remember, |
| 1:00.3 | I am 52, |
| 1:01.3 | so this is going back to the 80s |
| 1:02.7 | when I was doing geography. |
| 1:05.3 | OXpo Lake is called |
| 1:07.2 | a billabong in Australia. |
| 1:09.5 | It's a horseshoe bend in a river. What is it? We call them Oxbow's, but here in Australia, it's a bilibon. Oh, okay, okay, okay. Something happens to the flow of the river, and it gets like a little horseshoe or a U-curve, and this country calls them a billibon. Right. Now, I remember that from the 80s. That's impressive. |
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