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miket@hermes.tcs.com (Michel Turner nmscore Assoc) writes:

>The gist of the technique is to build a little story around each new
>small cluster of material.  Letters of the alphabet are learned by
>building the letters out of some basic shapes, making up a strange
>and funny story that provides clues to pronunciation.  Before learning
>anything like the whole alphabet, words are built out of the letters
>learned, again with each couched in the context of some story.  Very
>little is done by rote.


You might be interested in the book "Tell Me a Story: A New Look at Real
and Artificial Memory" by Roger Schank. He explains how storage of 
information in the brain and general intellgent behavior is related to 
the telling and remembering stories.

Rick Seeger