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Figure: Good educators know that you cannot motivate a child extrinsically. Poor intrinsic motivation, and poor mnemonic skills make SuperMemo unsuitable for children. In the presented case, a forgetting curve shows a catastrophically poor performance in a 7-year-old child coerced to learn vocabulary of a foreign language. This is a classic case of asemantic learning. The curve bears no relevance to a child's IQ. At this age, some kids may already show some success, as long as the use of SuperMemo is entirely voluntary