"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 problem starts with an educational system that stresses rote learning instead of creativity.
China's B-schools stress rote memorization rather than the flexible problem-solving skills required by real-life managers.
There is plenty of rote learning, discrimination against low-caste children, grade inflation and sometimes flogging.
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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.
Valentine's unpredictable brain and mouth bring some zip to a rivalry that had become character-deficient and rote.
The education style is rote learning, heavy on facts and figures -- not on analysis or interaction.
The arrangement "meant employment as local counsel could only be profitable as volume, rote work, " the court said.
This is due partly to the weight put on religious instruction and partly to the emphasis on rote learning.
On patents, UBS analyst Ben Reitzes win rote a note to investors Monday.
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Delegates claimed that its emphasis on core knowledge was a throw-back to rote learning and uncreative lists of facts.
This will put pressure on teachers to rely on rote learning without understanding.
The standard model of education is a passive one, where success is measured by memorizing rote facts, and figures.
She had an uncanny ability to remember and say it, not in rote but with a certain personal interpretation.
Much-vaunted educational achievements become rote-learning and a refusal to question those in authority.
Martin Allen, a delegate from Ealing, described it as a "know your place curriculum", based on rote learning and "social control".
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.
He adds that there is a risk that both teachers and pupils return to instrumental methods and follow rote learning procedures prematurely.
This might be true in China, where so much of the educational system is still harsh, authoritarian and based on rote learning.
Futaba create games that can be played up to four people to help with reading, mathematics and other more rote learning concepts.
Artists have long used a variety of techniques to free themselves from the rote and therefore deadening habits that we all fall into.
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Then the demonstration seems almost dutiful, by rote, and then there is a sudden mood of celebration as a trumpet plays a Mariachi tune.
China's education system - and the exams in particular - have been much criticised for enforcing rote learning and memory skills, rather than creativity.
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