Of course, in a time of recession, adults tend to seek shelter in higher education learning systems. Anxiety about losing one’s job or finding another one is more than enough inspiration to hit the books and better one’s marketability. The
In his book on Shakespare, Michael Wood observed that rote learning systems offer “many rewards, not least a sense of poetry, rhythm and refinement–a heightened feeling for language.” Of course, a major benefit of rote poetry learning systems is the
Michael Knox Beran points out that long before children begin school, parents create a learning system with the primitive poetry of the nursery rhyme. Before a two-year-old understands the meaning of nursery rhyme words, he or she delights in the
Of course, rote learning systems for multiplication tables are a little different from poetry. You’ll probably use multiplication your entire life; you won’t necessarily need to pull out Shelley’s “To a Skylark” at any particular moment. Donald R. Tippit, principal
One benefit of rote learning systems is the confidence students gain. In a rote learning system like the Off By Heart competition, performing a poem by heart can be a memorable and satisfying experience for students who may be struggling
Daisy Goodwin, organizer of the Off By Heart rote poetry competition, said she hopes to revive poetry’s popularity among the young. “Poetry still has a chance of surviving as a popular art form rather than something arcane and unloved,” she
