The problem starts with an educational system that stresses rote learning instead of creativity.
The education style is rote learning, heavy on facts and figures -- not on analysis or interaction.
This is due partly to the weight put on religious instruction and partly to the emphasis on rote learning.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Listed on the New York stock exchange since 2006, its founder Michael Yu (also known as Yu Minhong), became a multi-millionaire on the back of his blend of rote learning exercises, stand-up comedy and motivational speeches.
And I think that that requires more than just rote learning -- although it certainly requires good habits and discipline in school -- it also requires that in the classroom they're getting the kind of creative teaching that's so important.
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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Schoolchildren love his wry poems about spelling, learning by rote and other hardships of education.
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