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

Here are some reasons why memorization is important:

Proven benefits of memorization
Despite the existing backlash against memorization, rote learning has proven benefits. Here’s why it still plays a critical role in education:

1. Memorization Fosters Critical Thinking
Just like working out in the gym, challenging and consistent exercises are vital to the brain staying fit. Thus, a challenge like memorization is a great way to exercise your brain for better mental fitness.

2. Memorization Teaches Your Brain to Remember
It’s crucial to train your brain to remember. Memorizing gives your brain the strength to recall information. Therefore, memorizing any information over time rather than cramming makes your brain more receptive to remembering.

3. Improves Neural Plasticity
Through extended exercises in memorization, learners can retain more information. Accordingly, with repeated activation of the memory structures, you promote neuronal plasticity in the brain. According to MedicineNet, neuroplasticity allows neurons to respond to environmental changes by adjusting their activity.

4. Nursery School Rhymes Demonstrate Rhythmic Patterns
The repetition of nursery school rhymes teaches children memorization, a critical tool for children.

5. Memorization Benefits Through Mental Gymnastics
Neurobiologists believe that people who obsess over sports statistics make their brains agile and fast.

6. Knowing Frees Up Your Brain Capacity
Students who’ve memorized definitions, functions, equations, and other information can free up more brain capacity to use in other areas. If one has grasped all foundational concepts, one can move on to bigger concepts.

7. Memorization Improves Critical Thinking
Memorization lays an excellent foundation for cognitive development in the early stages. For instance, our early learning occurs through nursery school rhymes. Although these children don’t understand the structure, they learn through rhyme schemes.

8. Memory Training Starves Off Cognitive Decline
Adults who go through short periods of memory training are better off maintaining everyday skills and higher cognitive functions. Moreover, memorization allows adults to delay cognitive decline by 14 years.

9. Memorization Creates a Working Memory Necessary for Creativity
Working memory is necessary for creativity. Students who have mastered how to focus and develop their working memory through memorizing are more creative.

10. Memory Skills Help You Focus
When students memorize, they learn to focus. That said, students who practice memorizing at an early stage learn how to focus better on learning activities at high school and college levels. [/quote]

Thank you for this.  All very true.  [/quote]

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