Thursday, September 18, 2008

Parroting before Understanding

Miss Sayers, in her essay The Lost Tools of Learning, calls it the “Poll-Parrot, in which learning by heart is easy and , on the whole, pleasurable…”

With Eamon on my hip, a huge Ragweed sneeze snuck up on me and Eamon's bare belly caught the brunt of it. He looked at me indignantly and said,"You got Bless You all over my belly!"

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