Not exact matches
Amazing how when I needed answers for the deep
questions of life I had two choices to make them with: Follow (
by rote) what the Bible said or remember what is the true spirit of who Jesus is and how he would react to an issue or problem.
More emphasis on problem - solving, less on
rote learning, the argument went, would decrease the likelihood that students will be taken in
by questions like the following: «There are 26 sheep and 10 goats on a ship.
The Bishops who convened at the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore in 1884 determined to write a catechism for Catholic children — the famous Baltimore Catechism, which was a standard text in Catholic schools for the next 80 years, its
questions and answers about the Church and God learned,
by rote,
by millions of children, in a fashion that might put Muslim madrassas to shame — and then issued what today would be considered a terribly draconian and medieval (parochial?)