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[Richard Zane Smith]

thanks Maya and Mary!
another thing i might add is that for me, memorization is best in morning
hours,
when it seems even sunlight smells fresh baked.
my morning mind is a glassy pool of spring water and I'm watching minnows
move gently through various layers. By evening its much more stirred and
sludgy!
(and by the way,...If we don't have time for watching minnows?....then we
really are missing something!)

:-)
Richard Zane Smith



On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Maya Tracy Borhani <gmcmaya at gmail.com>wrote:

>  On Jun 26, 2012, at 6:46 AM, Richard Zane Smith wrote:
>
> Memorization requires a calm place, and often some kind of methodical
> routine , sanding, polishing, sweeping,
> hoeing, weeding, driving, snapping beans, twisting dogbane fibers for a
> bowstring....
> these are the moments when the mind is free, unfettered , open and
> malleable.
>
>
>
> As does *any* significant, meaningful, learning. In our homeschooling
> efforts, all "mental" work was done with the accompaniment of at least ONE
> of the suggestions you name - especially math, in Waldorf style, involved
> real, hands-on counting units (blocks, rods, etc;), never just abstract
> theory on paper (for Gr. 1-6).
>
> This paragraph should be incorporated into every school's curriculum
> policy. Thanks for stating it so beautifully.
>
> Maya
> Maya T. Borhani
> Master's Student, Language and Literacy in Education
> Faculty of Education
> University of British Columbia
> 2125 Main Mall
> Vancouver, BC
> Canada V6T 1Z4
>
>
>


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