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Readers of the Globe and Mail this morning will be interested in the first letter to the editor. It outlines a parent's discussion with a teacher about why students are not asked to memorize poetry, and suggests that a rich memory is part of intellectual growth--even if selecting acceptable poems would be difficult. It ends with a graceful quotation from In Flanders Fields. Thanks to Jamie MacKinnon of Ottawa for setting out these issues so cogently. Margaret Procter University of Toronto