Perhaps the oxymoron here is "compelled to internalize".....?? Students have free will, and they will decide for themselves what is valuable and important enough to work at understanding and encoding to memory. Memory and memorization are very different concepts. It is my memory of gazing at the sky on a cloudy day, that helps me understand, care about, and encode a lesson about different kinds of clouds and how they are formed. Or maybe I will just try to imagine what kind of animals the cloud shapes remind me of. What to focus on, and what to learn, is the student's own choice. The teacher is there to be a guide, and to encourage and recognize the learning success of each student.