Five year old Rik,a student a class I, happens to be my youngest student.I'm thrilled that he has scored 95% in mathematics. However his mom is furious because Rik has made a blunder in putting the proper punctuation marks ,while quoting a poem in his English Literature examination.I wonder why a child needs to memorize where the poet has used a colon,a semi-colon or a hyphen ,when he has barely learnt to use a full stop(.) and a question mark(?).Is this a way to test a child's memory skills?