I truly believe that spaced repetition is near-magic and it is a tragedy that it's not integrated into our society and educational system at a fundamental level. It makes me shudder to think of all the years spent learning things only to forget them weeks or months later.

In any case, I've recently embarked on a long-term educational plan utilizing spaced repetition. My goal is to learn dozens of languages, historical events, philosophical theories, lines of poetry, and various other information.

I'm curious if anyone else has used spaced repetition over a long period of time with a deliberately ambitious plan. Most people seem to just use it for dabbling in language-learning or medical school, and not as a way to embed massive amounts of knowledge in the brain.