https://www.theguardian.com/books/shortcuts/2016/may/31/is-rushdie-right-about-rote-learning-is-rushdie-right-about-rote-learning I’m grateful looking back to my school days for the memorizing imposed on us, long before poetry became my personal ’thing’… but that was a very old generation of teachers and I guess kids were not asked for this after - when? 1955? Max