In preparation for reading Margot Livesey's newest (Mercury), I decided to re-read this collection of short stories.

Corita Kent, a respected artist, taught art at Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles for more than 30 years. The fig tree is there, too, when war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to ashes and rubble, when the teenagers vanish. If you learn something by heart (or in UK English off by heart), you learn it in such a way that you can say it from memory: We all had to learn a poem by heart and thirty years later, I can still recite it. He attended a few training sessions and has aspirations to join a more competitive league with more consistent matches.

Kent's original projects and exercises, developed through more than 30 years as an art teacher and richly illustrated with 300 thought-provoking images, are as inspiring and as freeing today as they were during her lifetime. In this five-part series, US happiness expert and positive psychologist Michelle Gielan and British journalist and author Oliver Burkeman explore ways to become truly happier, backed up by scientific evidence. What our children learn by heart and share with their father becomes an expression of their own heartfelt emotions. Main Hi Kahaani Hoon”, an Audible Original is a weekly storytelling show of 20 episode from Audible, written-created-performed by Major Akhill Pratap; an ex-Army Officer popularly known as The Soldier and The Storyteller. I love this book, find hope in Wagner’s story, and will be recommending it to parents who worry that their children won’t find their way in the world.

To learn something by rote is to learn it by saying it many times, without necessarily understanding it: In those days, multiplication tables were still learnt by rote. Another memorized section 4 of the Doctrine and Covenants and announced to us that she had decided to serve a mission. Now Caine delves into the real stories behind the gangs we think we know so well, revealing the hidden realities behind the myths. Learning a poem is not the same as performing it but if one leads to the other, distinctive gains to oracy seem to be made. Sieghart helped to give the man CPR; an ambulance arrived a few minutes later, and Sieghart found himself back on the pavement, standing in the same spot but badly shaken.Many of you here today have spent the last four years (or maybe more) at this wonderful university to become educated. The Poetry and Memory Project provides further reading on the value and experience of poetry in the memory, and the relationship between memorisation and understanding.