Echoes of fond memory
Sir,—l have followed the correspondence on the lack of memory training in schools with great interest and feel compelled to assure your correspondents that all is not lost, at least not in one primary school in Christchurch. There, as in all P.N.E.U. schools throughout the world, the memorising of psalms, passages from the Bible and Shakespeare, as well as the poems of Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley and the other “greats,” is still an important part of the curriculum and the examinations, where delivery counts as much as word perfection. Charlotte Mason, whose philosophy of education has been followed by the P.N.E.U. since the 1880 s, was a great admirer of Wordsworth and his contemporaries and she firmly believed that this “repetition,” or learning by heart, was a sound educational discipline which not only increased the powers of memory but also gave the children pleasure and a sense of achieve-’ ment—Yours, etc.,
AROHA MOORE. September 20, 1983.
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