They even gave us 80s High School kids a term to mock: ‘rote memorization’.
Memorization is the needed exercise for the brain.
All geniuses, like Ben Carson, had memorized Bible passages as young children.
I have worked with children for decades-—the ones who ended up valedictorian of High Schools and Universities that I worked with in Co-op Nursery schools with my kids were the ones with excellent memories.
The more a child reads the Classics (like Ben Carson) the more they Know and the higher the IQ.
Reading and memory is crucial. Memorization for young children is easy-—because their brain is designed to learn whole languages without effort. The “educators” know this—and IQ in children starts to deviate at one and a half-—because minorities never read to their kids and TV watching doesn’t use the brain and exercise the brain like a mother/father reading/teaching her own children. All day cares (chaos) (away from parents in formative years) create “stress” in children and mistrust, which hurts IQ.
The Valedictorian kid at four years old, had parents who were reading chapter books to him and he could tell you the distance of the Sun from Earth. He was an only child, so basically used adult language by five. Five syllable words gave him absolutely NO problem.
Quote from Beck interview with Ben Carson: “One of the things that I used to do is, I used to love to memorize things. I memorized poems, memorized Bible verses,” he said. “And other people didn’t know those things, and it began to make me feel that there was something special about me, and that I could learn things.”
Knowledge gives TRUE self-esteem. Schools inculcate a false hollow self-esteem for doing nothing and learning nothing now. It destroys Christian Ethics.
Don’t get me wrong...while very important, rote memorization is not everything. But I believe there was ulterior motive in the educrats attempts to denigrate r.m. The less students know about their past, the more likely they are to accept the socialist “brave new world” hogwash. The dismissal of learning dates and names from history has a pernicious effect. Like the saying goes, those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.