Sunday, October 05, 2008

Nerd Notes: the Pleasures of Memorizing Great Poetry

Ah, great poetry committed to memory. It's like carrying an entire library of literary wonders in your head. I really should memorize more poems too. And Shakespeare. We should all memorize a few more bits of Shakespeare!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I wonder how many more abandoned, supposedly out-dated, teaching practices will be revived with a sudden shocking awareness of how beneficial they are.

Mad Minerva said...

I know! Isn't that the most amazing thing? Edu-crats reinventing the wheel.