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When to use flash cards: memorizing words/vocab, numbers, equations, names, dates, and verbatim facts or lines.
When to use mnemonic devices: memorizing steps of a process or sets of facts/information/people, especially in an order.
When to use concept maps or drawings: learning (rather than memorizing) relationships, processes, concepts, systems, etc.
When to use tables or charts: learning or memorizing systems (eg. conjugation in a foreign language), sets of sets of information (eg. people and when they lived and what they did), and other large/complex groups of information.
When to use songs: for learning or memorizing anything.

Disclaimer: this is a general guideline. If something else works for you, do it!

gearoidoutremer:

sarahreesbrennan:

lavender-lily:

penfairy:

Today I found out we owe most of our punctuation to the medieval Irish. They’d had no experience with Latin before, so when these Latin manuscripts started showing up written in all caps with no spaces between the words looking like a brick wall of hot nonsense, the Irish sighed and said “give me that feckin quill” and they did such a good job of editing the texts and producing readable copies that their conventions kind of stuck with us through the ages

Irish pride woot

my isle of saints and scholars

… really pedantic saints

Scholars and monks in Early Medieval Ireland actually went so far as devising their own literary dialect of Latin, Hiberno-Latin. Which they loved to use for very very nerdy wordplay.