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Theory

Six verbs, not a ladder you finish.

Bloom named six things you can ask a mind to do. It is not a badge.

Six objects in a row: a pebble, a seed, a tool, a cut fruit, a scale, a brush.

People treat Bloom's taxonomy like a staircase. Climb it once. Graduate. Done.

That is not how work works. You remember on Tuesday. You create on Thursday. You remember again on Friday.

The list is useful because it is honest. There are six verbs:

  1. 1. Remember

    Can you bring it back? A word. A fact. A step.

  2. 2. Understand

    Can you say it in your own mouth? Not copy it.

  3. 3. Apply

    Can you use it on a new page, a new problem, a new shift?

  4. 4. Analyze

    Can you take it apart and see the joints?

  5. 5. Evaluate

    Can you judge it? Keep it, throw it out, or wait.

  6. 6. Create

    Can you make the next thing with it?

Most quizzes live in Remember. They are cheap to write. They feel like progress. They rarely are.

A good tool asks more. Apply this in a new text. Analyze why that sentence failed. Create a sentence of your own.

Language needs all six. So does math. So does statistics. So does writing. So does logical thinking.

So does a checklist in a cockpit.

If a feature only asks you to remember, it has to earn its place.

The other half is difficulty. The verb is not enough. The size of the step has to be right.