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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Memorizing classic words doesn’t mean they understand them. I’d rather my child understand the purpose and meaning without being able to recite word for word. [/quote]Bingo!!! Memorizing is not learning! Applying knowledge show mastery in learning.

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Memorizing is quite literally learning. How do you think kids get the knowledge that they are supposed to “show mastery” of?[/quote]

You could “teach” me how to say a sentence in Korean without telling me what it means. We could go over and over it with me repeating until I had it memorized. I’d be able to recite the sounds but it wouldn’t have any meaning. What good is that? What did I learn?[/quote]

OMG.  You can't be serious.  We are OBVIOUSLY talking about memorizing works written in our native language.  I can't believe this has to be explained to you.  
DP[/quote]

Even in English, memorizing doesn’t mean you understand. Let’s simply memorize some of Hamlet: “To be or not to be”. One can memorize this word for word, but if that’s all you do in order to regurgitate words with no understanding, it may as well be a foreign language.

The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn[/quote]

No one has said memorization should occur without discussion and understanding of the subject.  No one.  But do continue with the strawmen.[/quote]

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