Bring memorization back to schools
"Through memorization, students begin to mimic the best that is in authors, employing their patterns of thought, lines of argumentation, and knowledge in their own thinking and academic work. Such engagement awakens their minds, sharpens their reason, and forms their character."
The Hill • Daniel Buck
What happens when schools stop asking children to hold anything in mind for themselves? This piece makes a calm, timely case that memorization is not a dead educational relic but a way of strengthening attention, deepening thought, and handing on a cultural inheritance worth loving.
