Learning by Heart: Teachings to Free the Creative Spirit

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In an engaging conversational style, he suggests how school people can become the architects, engineers, and designers of their own schools-and of their own destinies. As we gathered to give him our gifts, our celebration looked a little different from that of most families.

The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal.Children and young people are invited to choose poems they love, to learn them by heart and perform them in a school performance event. If you make an effort to learn about a particular subject for an exam or other test, you may be said to bone up on that subject: You’d better bone up on your local history before the quiz! Adults are regularly surprised by the facility children seem to have for learning by heart, with varied reasons proposed such as less fear, the pliability of young brains, and more time to devote to it.

Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).Learn how to challenge fears, be open to new directions, recognize connections between objects and ideas, and much more in this remarkable, indispensable guide to freeing the creative spirit within all of us. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil”; Seamus ­Heaney’s “big soft buffetings come at the car sideways / And catch the heart off guard and blow it open”; and ­Larkin’s “Yet still the unresting castles thresh / In fullgrown thickness every May. Cognitive scientists like to talk about our long-term memory and our ‘working memory,’” he tells me.