Blog 12

In ARCS Ch. 11 they discuss memory and how important it was to rhetoric in ancient times.  While I would agree that memory is not as important to rhetoric in modern times, it is essential to school.  With all the exams we take in high school, all students do is memorize information.  In addition to memorizing so called facts for exams, we also have to learn how to look information up.  While you don't have to remember things that you read because you can usually find it again, you do need to know what you read or where you found it.  Additionally, when writing essays or speeches or other forms of rhetoric it is important to remember information that may be useful to your argument.  I feel like we've talked a lot about how the skill of memorizing things is gone, but the more I think about it, the more I think it isn't.  We memorize a lot of things, and now it's not just information, but instruction manuals for thousands of things that we need to do every day.  I think memoria is still important, but we just use memory a little differently.