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Is there value in memorizing the Gettysburg Address?
Mar 5, 2013, 2:27 PM
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5th graders are required to do that here...I am not one who sees the value in such an activity
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No.
Mar 5, 2013, 2:29 PM
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Not in this age of GPS.
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TMML
Mar 5, 2013, 2:33 PM
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I was not expecting that answer...at all.
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He's like the Spanish Inquisition.***
Mar 5, 2013, 4:32 PM
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All-In [45047]
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Should have read this before I posted my comment!
Mar 5, 2013, 4:27 PM
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Nah, not really.
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Oculus Spirit [83625]
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If it wasn't for the Gettysburg Address, I might not know...
Mar 5, 2013, 2:29 PM
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that a score is 37 years.
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Re: If it wasn't for the Gettysburg Address, I might not know...
Mar 6, 2013, 12:55 PM
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or 20, but then again, there seems to not be much difference 6000 and 4.54 billion years
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Oculus Spirit [78892]
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yes, there is a value
Mar 5, 2013, 3:14 PM
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The value is being able to memorize stuff. It takes effort to be able to do this. You got to want it. Whether they are memorizing the Gettysburg Address or an Eminem song is immaterial.
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All-TigerNet [11252]
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It's valuable to remember
Mar 5, 2013, 4:08 PM
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what precipitated the Address.
Remember: Don't charge across a mile of open field, In July sun, with no coordinated artillery support or tanks to soften up the defense. You listening Dabo?
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Ring of Honor [32958]
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So, dont play Texas AnM at there?***
Mar 5, 2013, 5:06 PM
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All-TigerNet [13190]
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I just took a mid term in grad school
Mar 5, 2013, 4:12 PM
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The teacher should have just posted his powerpoints at the beginning of the semester and told us to memorize them. So, yea, I guess learning how to memorize things you can look up in .5 seconds has some sort of value, in that when you have lazy teachers who have no idea how to write a test, you get questions about which standard (in a sea of standards with similar #'s) this thing or that thing applies to.
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All-TigerNet [11252]
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THIS!!!***
Mar 5, 2013, 4:14 PM
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Why not just plug it into your GPS?
Mar 5, 2013, 4:27 PM
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No, it's all BS***
Mar 5, 2013, 4:32 PM
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Heisman Winner [135615]
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THIS is what 5th graders need to know:
Mar 5, 2013, 4:34 PM
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Ring of Honor [32958]
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The real value is in learning the absolute waste that is war
Mar 5, 2013, 5:05 PM
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It seems to be lost on human beings.
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All-TigerNet [10892]
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The only just war is a defensive war
Mar 5, 2013, 5:07 PM
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which is what the CSA waged
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Ring of Honor [32958]
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Fighting one's self is the stupidest kind of war.***
Mar 5, 2013, 5:54 PM
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Oculus Spirit [93673]
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True for the North and for the South.
Mar 5, 2013, 6:44 PM
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Of course we were subject of the King when we the whole thing started.
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I remember memorizing "I must go down to the sea again"
Mar 5, 2013, 7:18 PM
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by John Masefield, when I was in the 5th grade.
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It's a lot more important to understand the context...
Mar 6, 2013, 12:20 PM
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... if you're talking about a history class. If you're teaching speech however, there's no better example in the English language of the combination of brevity and eloquence. It's status is due more to how good a speech it was than the historical significance it represented. Being required to speak it out loud might have some value there.
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