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We had to learn the Gettysburg Address by heart when I went to high school (1944-147)
Do they still require it?
Anyone with HS age children?
I thought a "stone" in UK weight was 14 pounds in US weight or have I been daydreaming again?
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oops - sorry Flats, I queried your response before my brain caught up!
and yes, wow, 14lbs = 1 stone = about 6nathird kilos!
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Ahhhh, to weigh 11 stone again!
Or even to weigh the lie on my driver's license!
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Anyone with HS age children?
Are about high school age people good enough?
No, I wasn't required to memorize it. I think most educational institutions prefer now that you actually learn something rather than simply memorize it so you can mindlessly regurgitate it later for no reason.
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>>. I think most educational institutions prefer now that you actually learn something rather than simply memorize it
aagh! i think memorizing it a way of learning.. and i also think that learning how to memorize something is also an important part of learning.. I didn't alway value the things i was made to memorize, until, years later, as i regurgitated, them, heard the words.
there is a roman philosopher who claimed you could never stand enter the same river twice, be the river flowed, there was always new water.
when you memeorize something, you don't mindlessly regurgatate. you have it with you, and as you change, the words change..
you're still a bit young, but go back and watch some movie you thought great 5 years ago.. something you watched as you entered HS, and see if you enjoy the movie as much, (you might), but also see if you think or feel the same way about the story. see how your own perceptions have changed.
I added the URL, because my memory was imperfect. i couldn't go past the line i ended at, (and there were a few errors, corrected before that.) but the words move me. and my reaction to the words changes with time.
if you went through 12 years of school with out being required to memorize anything, i feel sad for you. you missed learning a vital tool. you can still learn it, but it will takes some years of practice to master.
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re: i never use score or stone as measurement of 20
i messed up! i almost never use the terms.. i acutally learned score from gettysberg address.. but stone is one of those terms i keep tripping over..
all the UK/NZ/OZ guys are right..
mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa
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>acutally learned score from gettysberg address..
I actually learned about score from Ford, 1953, flathead mill, BIG backseat :_)
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I actually learned about score from Ford, 1953, flathead mill, BIG backseat :_) ! But I have to ask... what's a flathead mill?(Gee, were you expecting another question???)
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Back in 1985 when I moved to Singapore (my first foray into the tropics and first long term period out of the UK) one of the things that threw me for a loop was the fact that eggs were sold by the ten rather than by the half-dozen or dozen. What is the standard quantity in other parts of the world?
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