Posts Tagged ‘memorization’
Memorizing phone numbers: An artifact of bygone days
My aunt sent a text message to the family this week informing us that her landline phone number was no more. It was a phone number that I have known since I was a boy (41 years according to her), and it’s one of the last phone numbers that I know by heart I know…
Read MorePoetry memorization need not be boring or a waste of time. I have used it to make a woman swoon (possibly) and enact one of my greatest pranks of all time against a fellow teacher.
Mike Chasar of Poetry Magazine writes about the lost art of poetry memorization. While it’s true that the academic demand to memorize poetry has all but disappeared from the American school system, I’m happy to report that this dying art remains alive and well in tiny corners of the world, including several of my own.…
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