[lbo-talk] In Praise of Rote Memorization

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Sun Jan 29 05:24:02 PST 2006


--- andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote: Professor friend of mine in college taught classical lit, had her students memorize 40 lines of Homer. ---

We did some of this in my Greek classes. I still remember the first lines of the Iliad: menin aeide, thea, Akhilleus Peleiados oulomenen

and the Metaphysics:

pantes anthropoi tou eidenai oregontai fusei.

Nu, zayats, pogodi!

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