KN in Arkansas
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 at 2:20 PM

"I remember learning the multiplication tables. The sister stood at the front of the classroom with large flashcards and made us go over them and over them -- until every student knew them by heart."

Ah the memories. K-12 I attended a Catholic school operated by the good Sisters of St. Joseph. Rote memorization, diagramming sentences, long division, calculating square root by hand, logarithms, proving theorems, and outling texts by hand, absolutely. And learn we did.

And the neighborhood. On any given Saturday or day of the summer I could leave the house before my parents got up and not be back until dark and they never worried a bit.

SMA - 1969