"The worst thing in the world to me is to play by rote, " he says.
Instead we get Teaching By Rote 2.0 and a deeper entrenchment of the school-as-assembly-line model.
The techniques of wooden movable-type printing are transmitted through families by rote and word of mouth.
Schoolchildren love his wry poems about spelling, learning by rote and other hardships of education.
Motion is calling for children to be taught poetry not by rote, but by heart.
The children learn by rote, with little or no understanding of what they are memorizing.
It leads to a narrowing of the curriculum and a widespread teaching-to-the-test mentality that is little better than teaching by rote.
For me, this is an iPhone task I do by rote, merrily deleting emails on my morning walk to the subway.
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For example, many autistic people have to learn the meaning of facial expressions by rote so that they can react appropriately.
Then the demonstration seems almost dutiful, by rote, and then there is a sudden mood of celebration as a trumpet plays a Mariachi tune.
Taught by rote, with little time spent on analysis, many are ill equipped to compete with bright young talent from abroad for jobs in an economy flush with 21st-century technology.
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's new-media facility, he answered questions from a collection of magazine editors as if by rote, but on his way out he asked to see the Internet servers and spent 45 minutes grilling the claque of awed techies there.
The standard model of education is a passive one, where success is measured by memorizing rote facts, and figures.
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