FTA: "With schools having largely withdrawn from the practice of making students memorize poetry, few of us today have anything approaching the interior resourc

FTA: "With schools having largely withdrawn from the practice of making students memorize poetry, few of us today have anything approaching the interior resources of a rhapsode.” My son attends school in France and learning by heart and then reciting poems is something he does regularly as part of his homework. Professionally, I’ve found that reading aloud is how I most easily catch the errors in text that I’ve written. Personally, there’s something magical about reading aloud to children and being able to maintain their attention with voices, expression, and variations in tone.