The educationalist Louis P. Bénézet preferred "to read", "to reason", "to recite", adding, "by reciting I did not mean giving back, verbatim, the words of the teacher or of the textbook.
Louis P. Bénézet, the educationalist, favored reading, reasoning, and reciting. He clarified that when he recited, it wasn't about simply repeating the words of his teacher or textbook word-for-word.