"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.
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.
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.
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.
Yet, despite the great success of its education system, Singapore has been reforming it to lay less stress on rote-learning and repetitive tests and more on self-expression.
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Once March rolls around and I can get takeout from there again, it feels like such a fun treat, not something that has become rote and expected.
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For the past 15 years Brown has been on an advisory board to the government of Singapore, which has mandated that schools move from rote learning to group problem solving.
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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There were no significant differences in performance between the groups at the start of the study yet TRNS was found to improve the speed of learning for both calculation and rote learning tasks.
Following the Industrial Revolution, schools adopted a more regimented model focused on rote and routine, and added a more specialized curriculum designed to meet the insatiable labor needs of our mills and factories.
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