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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wouldn’t want my kids [b]wasting time memorizing something like the Gettysburg address.[/b] Very pointless. In addition, some kids have issues with memorization. And can you imagine the teacher and students having to listen to 28 kids recite the Gettysburg address?![/quote]

[b]Yes--what is the point of learning the words of one of our greatest Presidents?  What is the point of learning how and where he wrote it?  What is the point of knowing why he wrote it?  What is the point of learning the history of what happened at Gettysburg?  [/b][/quote]

Sadly I don’t think this is sarcasm.

The battle at Gettysburg was the turning point in the Civil War.   Had Lee been victorious he would have had a stranglehold on the north while Sherman would have had a similar hold on the South.   A standoff.  The US would have split in two.

That is why learning about the battle and what it led to is important.  [/quote]

PP of the bolded.  It was very much intended as sarcasm.  I totally agree with your point.  First PP obviously does not understand the significance of Gettysburg.  Just like some do not understand that one way to really delve into the words is to spend time memorizing them.  The Gettysburg Address is not that long.  All of it does not have to be memorized, but this is one way to study it rather than to just read it or hear it.

As for memorization, I had a dad who was older when I was born.  He was only a high school graduate but he was an extremely well read and very smart man.  He took great pleasure in quoting speeches and Shakespeare.  Most people who met him would never have imagined that he read Shakespeare for pleasure.  He must have had some great teachers.  [/quote]

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