Remember those memory verses?

[abelisle]

This interesting article about memorization:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/02/20/magazine/mind-secrets.html?ref=magazine

sheds light on why memorizing Bible verses/chapters/books has significant importance.

"To our memorybound predecessors, the goal of training your memory was not to become a “living book” but rather a “living concordance,” writes the historian Mary Carruthers, a walking index of everything read or learned that was considered worthwhile. And this required building an organizational scheme for accessing that information. When the point of reading is remembering, you approach a text very differently from the way most of us do today. You can’t read as fast as you’re probably reading this article and expect to remember what you’ve read for any considerable length of time. If something is going to be made memorable, it has to be dwelled upon, repeated"

"Today we have books, photographs, computers and an entire superstructure of external devices to help us store our memories outside our brains, but it wasn’t so long ago that culture depended on individual memories. A trained memory was not just a handy tool but also a fundamental facet of any worldly mind. It was considered a form of character-building, a way of developing the cardinal virtue of prudence and, by extension, ethics. Only through memorizing, the thinking went, could ideas be incorporated into your psyche and their values absorbed"

Alex

[Gail]

Amen and amen!!

[Gerr]

I have recently started memorizing whole chapters.

[Gail]

I have recently started memorizing whole chapters.

That's GOT to be better than sudoku for keeping your brain up as you age!

[Dottie]

Great article! Gives me a challenge. I have a lot of stuff in my head, but it's disorganized. I tell people that I have a trivia bank in there when they ask, "How do you know that?"

I tell them it's because I like to read.