For I have known them all already: Memorizing, Copying, and Reciting Are Actually Fun

When a child loves something, they memorize it. They learn it, as we sometimes say, by heart. My nephew memorized hundreds of species of dinosaurs: long Latin names, and whether they were herbivores or carnivores, and what sorts of climates they lived in. His little brother, long before he could form full sentences, could identify every category of truc…