Education: Learning by heart trains memory
Verses for learning should bring up noble feelings in the child, they should be beautiful, refined and deserving to be remembered all the life. And at the same time the child should like them.
The purpose of such lessons is not simply to learn by heart, but also to develop aesthetic feeling of the child, his or her mental faculties and creative potentialities.
The brain of a child can keep in memory from 100 up to 200 short poems. The more intensively memory is used, the better it functions and develops.
But everything should be done in a proper time: child’s retention should be trained, while he or she finds a pleasure in repetition.