Subjects like literature, where students were expected to recite the teacher's interpretations of whatever was being read rather than expressing their own views, felt odd to her.
I must take issue with the statement by Michael R. Bloomberg, a Republican candidate for mayor of New York City, that when he was growing up in Massachusetts, "nobody was uncomfortable" when Jewish children were expected to recite the Lord's Prayer in public school (news article, July 20).
Children as young as five will be expected to learn and recite poetry by heart in a major overhaul of the national curriculum for schools in England.
Pupils will be expected to learn poems by heart and recite them in public.
As a Jew, I wouldn't want my children to be expected to sing Christmas carols about Jesus in their schools or to be at a school where they recite the "Lord's prayer".
We were notified that thousands were expected to come to recite tehillim (psalms) -- and, indeed, thousands came.
It's for those reasons that I'm nervous about the noises currently being made by the Department for Education about returning to "traditional values" in schools – values which would see children as young as five being expected to learn and recite poetry "by heart".
In the daily freshman grind, Doolies are expected to memorize and recite reams of information to members of the upper classmen.
We had our Chateaubriand in Tennyson and... our Madame Récamier in [her]." Despite the fact that she was constantly occupied with entertaining her illustrious company at what she described as "feasts of intellect" (dinners at Dimbola lasted for four hours, and guests were expected to sing, play, recite poetry, or, at the very least, pontificate), she managed to feel bored.
All Hypermart USA employees are expected to be able ro recite the company cheer.
