MEMORY - MEMORIA . MNEMOSYNE

Why are so many educators today averse to memorization? When did committing facts, lines of poetry, or elegant ideas to memory become unfashionable?
I come from a generation that learned verses, literary passages, equations, historical dates, and geography by heart—and here I stand, none the worse for wear. In fact, I maintain that we are our memory; we are what we carry in the mind.
It is no accident that Mnemosyne, goddess of memory, was mother to the nine Muses. I still honor her by memorizing as much as I can, even at my age.

I explore these thoughts further in my article for VivaFifty:  https://www.vivafifty.com/aprende-memoria-mente-7450/