When I say “learning by heart”, I mean memorising something in such a way that you could recite it verbatim. It’s also implied that this process refers to committing longer chunks of language, so learning that 一 means “one” and is pronounced yī is not an example of learning something by heart, but learning a sentence with this character in it so you could recite it later would count. Duboc, V.; Dufourcq, P.; Blader, P.; Roussigné, M. Asymmetry of the brain: Development and implications. Annu. Rev. Genet 2015, 49, 647–672. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef] Takahashi, E.; Ohki, K.; Miyashita, Y. The role of the parahippocampal gyrus in source memory for external and internal events. Neuroreport 2002, 13, 1951–1956. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef]

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Wagner’s passionate memoir serves as blueprint for educators looking to inspire their own students.”— Publishers Weekly Fleming, D.J.; Culclasure, B.; Zhang, D. The Montessori model and creativity. J. Montessori Res. 2019, 5, 1–14. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef] I am grateful for powerful examples in my life of people who are continually learning and serving—thus making the world a better place by using their vibrant minds and hearts. This is not true everywhere, though, and China can serve as a good counter-example here. Students are often required to learn long passages by heart in many different subjects, including languages. This might be a famous text (particularly in Chinese) or simply something important in the textbook (in foreign languages). When studying language and literature at higher levels, memorising target language texts is not uncommon. Testing language ability or specific instances of the language Would pupils be able to do it, want to do it, be prepared to do it? And what about their teachers? For some pupils, having to do poetry at all was bad enough. Poets on poetry

Raja, R.; Na, X.; Glasier, C.M.; Badger, T.M.; Bellando, J.; Ou, X. Associations between Cortical Asymmetry and Domain Specific Cognitive Functions in Healthy Children. In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), Virtual, 1–5 November 2021; IEEE: Piscataway, NJ, USA, 2021; pp. 3127–3132. [ Google Scholar] So far so good, but why am I writing this article, then? Isn’t it obvious that learning things by heart is not the way to go? They become embedded in our thinking, and when we bring them to mind, or to our lips, they remind us who we are as people, and the things we believe in.One of the world’s top experts on education delivers an uplifting memoir on his own personal failures and successes as he sought to become a good learner and teacher. Bohbot, V.D.; Allen, J.J.; Dagher, A.; Dumoulin, S.O.; Evans, A.C.; Petrides, M.; Kalina, M.; Stepankova, K.; Nadel, L. Role of the parahippocampal cortex in memory for the configuration but not the identity of objects: Converging evidence from patients with selective thermal lesions and fMRI. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 2015, 9, 431. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef] Housman (1859-1936) may not have revolutionised poetry in the way that some of the other names on this list did, but of all the poets included here, he is perhaps the one whose work most easily lends itself to being learned by heart. His fondness for regular rhyme schemes and verse forms, his plain and direct use of language, and his ability to articulate deeply felt sentiments in affecting and moving verse, all make Housman a join to learn, and carry around, ‘by heart’.

Learning poems by heart is all about developing confidence in an enjoyable, accessible and engaging way. Schwery, P.; Romascano, D.; Aleman Gomez, Y.; Messerli-Burgy, N.; Denervaud, S. The Effects of Mild but Chronic Stress at School on Brain Development: A Comparative Morphometric Study Between Traditionally and Montessori-schooled Children. Under Rev. 2023. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef]Some of these activities are useful others are not. Learning by heart is in itself not good or bad; it depends on what you’re trying to learn and why. As long as it’s in Chinese it’s okay to learn it by heart Learning by Hearttransforms the young Tony Wagner’s pain into a journey of compassion, imagination, wit, and, finally, triumphant success. Fast paced, original, and beautifully written, it is of the most honest and useful memoirs I’ve read in recent years.”— Rebecca Pepper Sinkler, former editor of The New York Times Book Review This revised edition of her classic work Learning by Heart features a new foreword and a chart of curriculum standards. Kent's original projects and exercises, developed through more than 30 years as an art teacher and richly illustrated with 300 thought-provoking images, are as inspiring and as freeing today as they were during her lifetime.

Dr Julie Blake, FEA, FRSL(Hon), co-directs Poetry By Heart, the national poetry speaking competition for schools. She researches and writes about the history of poetry for children, creates digital and print anthologies of poems for children and young people, teaches poetry pedagogy and has an encyclopaedic knowledge of poetry in the school English curriculum. Stage actors learn by rote, the old Victorian way. A couple of lines at a time, linked to cues, over and over again until they’re lodged in the brain. Once you’ve got the lines down, you’re ‘off the book’. Many of his poems are about the natural world, with woods and trees featuring prominently in some of his most famous and widely anthologised poems (‘The Road Not Taken’, ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’, ‘Birches’, ‘Tree at My Window’). Elsewhere, he was fond of very short and pithy poetic statements: see ‘Fire and Ice’ and ‘But Outer Space’, for example.I would say the terms (which mean the same thing) are used by people depending on what impression they wish to create. Whilst Shakespearean actors probably memorise 'by heart' (because that is deemed nice), children are taught times tables 'by rote' (because that is deemed nasty). The amount of time you put into preparing lessons is entirely up to you and there are no set requirements that we expect for each lesson - just tutor in the way you feel most comfortable with! TV actors, particularly in soaps, tend to have excellent short term memories – they remember the lines they need for the scenes they’re shooting that day, but the day after, the lines have gone. Children consistently tell us that learning a poem is fun. That can mean many things but includes the freedom to choose a poem for themselves, the difficulty of the challenge, the risk and the dare of performing their poem, and the immediate gratification of the respect of their friends and relatives when they take that risk. Focus