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[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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If you don’t commit knowledge to memory how can you master anything?  Do you people listen to yourselves?

Amazing what the downward slide in education in the US over the last 40 years has led to, if not for COVID the momentum would have been unstoppable. [/quote]I think you are missing the point memorizing by itself does nothing if you cannot apply the knowledge to something bigger that what you regurgitate. “Just” memorizing does not cut it in the real world. The OP post was about AZ and GA making kids memorize classics. There is nothing mentioned about what they do after or during the memorization.[/quote]

Wrong.  From the article:

"Recitation allows students to experience a text as a living thing, ready to be taken up by a new generation. [b]Committing a poem or speech to memory means stepping into the author’s shoes and pondering what he meant. Deciding which words to stress when reciting means thinking about what those words mean. [/b]This is why public speaking was once a requirement at many colleges and universities."

In addition, other posters whose kids have done this at private schools say it's all part of a larger assignment in which they also write critical essays about the meaning of the piece.  This isn't just rote memorization.  [/quote]

No, it means morning a string of words and nothing more. Actually, it means spending an inordinate amount of time on one section of one piece of prose just memorizing. That time could be otherwise spent learning the context of the work or learning other works.[/quote]

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