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Date Posted: 08:05:40 04/26/07 Thu
Author: Lynx
Subject: Re: 8th Grade Final Exam in 1895
In reply to: SuziWong 's message, "Re: 8th Grade Final Exam in 1895" on 07:47:08 04/26/07 Thu

>The facts asked for in the 1895 example are facts
>perhaps any 8th grader then would have known, but
>would they have remembered them in 1925?

I don't agree, Suz, about the brain discarding information that is not useful. When I was in sixth grade, my mother gave me the task of helping my high school age sister memorize the prologue to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, so that she could receive extra credit. My sister never learned it, but I did. Perhaps it wasn't very useful, but it absolutely delights me that I can remember it some 40 years later. :-)

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Re: 8th Grade Final Exam in 1895 -- Trystero, 16:03:12 04/28/07 Sat
- Well stated, Trys. (NT) -- Lynx, 16:46:55 04/28/07 Sat
  - Who doesn't love Nolij for Nolij's sake? (NT) -- Trys, 19:00:23 04/28/07 Sat
    - Agreed. -- Deep Diction, 20:39:14 04/29/07 Sun
- Re: 8th Grade Final Exam in 1895 -- Nolij, 20:14:05 04/28/07 Sat
- Another thought. -- Lynx, 09:27:31 04/29/07 Sun
  - tabula rasa -- Trys, 14:13:41 04/29/07 Sun
    - Re: tabula rasa -- EJetson, 06:18:32 04/30/07 Mon
    - Re: tabula rasa -- Lynx, 08:05:51 04/30/07 Mon
      - Re: tabula rasa -- Deep Diction, 10:36:37 04/30/07 Mon
        Re: tabula rasa -- Lynx, 13:18:50 04/30/07 Mon
        Re: tabula rasa -- Nolij, 11:38:40 05/01/07 Tue

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