A Child’s Brain is Like a Sponge: Don’t Discount the Memory Work

Posted on October 28, 2009
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If asked, I can quote the exact dictionary definition of hypothesis; a conversational dialogue from the first week of high school French; and the most difficult to pronounce sentence assigned to me in college Russian. Why? I had to memorize them. Young children have fresh and powerful memories; they are capable of progressing from crying newborns to speaking their native language in such a relatively short period of time. Sometimes rote memorization gets a bad name in the realm of homeschoolin

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A Child’s Brain is Like a Sponge: Don’t Discount the Memory Work

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