SS #24: The Late Great Memory Debate

This summer, we shared an article from The Atlantic on memorization, and WOW did the discussion explode on Facebook! We couldn’t help chatting about it ourselves, and that conversation eventually became this podcast episode.

We don’t pretend to have the last word on memory work, but we do think this is a great beginning place to start thinking about this issue.

 

 

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Show Notes:

• Scholé RDA:
  • Mental Multivitamin — we can’t link to this blog because it no longer exists, but we wanted you to know what we were saying. 🙂
  • Pam
    • The Lost Book of the Grail by Charlie Lovett
    • Modern Mrs. Darcy Summer Reading List
  • Mystie
    • Dawn to Decadence by Jacques Barzun
    • Amber Vanderpol
    • A History of the American People by Paul Johnson — audio book
  • Brandy
    • The Roots of American Order by Russell Kirk
    • Against the Gods by John Currid
    • Yes, Brandy really did invent the word “symbolistic” while we were recording

 

• Topical Discussion: The Late Great Memory Debate
  • The article we shared on FB that started it all: When Memorization Gets in the Way of Learning from The Atlantic
  • CC timeline song with Veritas Cards
  • New CC timeline song
  • GHC Ontario
  • Here’s a quote:
    

    They cram to pass, and not to know, they do pass, and they don’t know. — John Ruskin

  • Facts and ideas episode from Your Morning Basket Podcast — Teaching with Ideas: A Conversation with Brandy Vencel
  • Math U See
  • Research on the Teaching of Math: Formal Arithmetic at Age Ten, Hurried or Delayed? by Harvey Bluedorn
  • Better Late Than Early by Raymond and Dorothy Moore
  • Scholé Sisters Episode 13: Learning Styles are Bunk

 

• Nitty Gritty Homeschool Question
  • Children’s Catechism
  • Grounded: The Physics of Circle Time
  • Why Slow Reading Matters More Than You’d Expect by Brandy Vencel
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  • Count of Monte Cristo
    by Alexandre Dumas
  • The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien
  • AmblesideOnline

 

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