As Lorayne wrote in one of his early books, “There is no learning without memory.” The problem is, memory has a bad rap. Even if they don’t always show it in the best of ways, educators today know what you now know—that learning must be experiential. It must be engaging. And it must draw upon the learner’s own experience and knowledge. Thus, in an effort to do away with rote memorization, educators and policymakers have thrown the baby out with the bathwater. Except where unavoidable, they’ve done away with anything that even resembles memorization. But in doing so, they’ve completely
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