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[supergee]

The case for rote memorization

Thanx to Chronicle

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[emceeaich]

He lost me at:

5. It supplies young people a reservoir of better utterances. A little exposure to the words of Dickinson, Wordsworth, and the rest grants them a healthy alternative to the puerile patter of social networking.

Oh, yes, that's right, the things youth say to one another is of small import next to the utterances of dead people.

I had to call Neil Rest on this earlier this year and it deserves a name: #boomerfail