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  • Why It’s Still Important to Memorize

    Why It’s Still Important to Memorize0

    • September 29, 2015

    There was only one poem I was required to memorize in all my years of schooling – Robert Frost’s Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.    Like most students today, I had an education in which memorization was not emphasized. My understanding is that it is even worse now. Today, the word “memorization” is

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  • Why It’s So Hard to Get Kids Off Their Screens

    Why It’s So Hard to Get Kids Off Their Screens1

    “How many of you have closed your email and then immediately reopened it because you might have just gotten an email?” Laughter rippled through the audience — including me — as we listened to Emily Cherkin give a talk at The Brearley School in Manhattan about tech and kids and us: parents, kids, educators, email

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  • Why it’s so Easy to Relate to Pontius Pilate

    Why it’s so Easy to Relate to Pontius Pilate0

    Who would sympathize with the Roman official who had Jesus crucified? Even among many who don’t consider themselves Christian, Pontius Pilate is a cultural symbol of an abusive, authoritarian power. But there are a few movies, such as Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, that present him as an almost sympathetic figure. That’s not

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  • Why It’s Important to Have Heroes

    Why It’s Important to Have Heroes0

    Heroes. Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary defines a hero as “a man admired for his achievements and noble qualities.” That “man” doesn’t fit the zeitgeist these days, so I looked up “heroine,” who is “a woman admired and emulated for her achievements and qualities.” Because I prefer the latter definition for my purposes here, I

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  • Why It’s Harmful to Reward Children for Everything

    Why It’s Harmful to Reward Children for Everything1

    Rewarding children for good behavior has become commonplace in the American family. But in a recent piece for The Atlantic, Psychologist Erica Reischer cautions that reward systems can be surprisingly harmful to children and their families. Using the example of the ubiquitous sticker chart, Reischer writes that the system of children earning their way to

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  • Why It’s Good to Mark Up Books

    Why It’s Good to Mark Up Books0

    (Image: Jack Kerouac’s copy of Dostoevsky’s An Unpleasant Predicament) I truly appreciate the existence of libraries, which provide many people access to books that their budgets would not allow them to purchase. But the thing is, I rarely check out books from them. The reason why? I love to mark up books. Since high school—thanks to

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