The word 'memorisation' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the process of committing something to memory, such as facts or formulas. For example, "Memorisation helps ensure that I can recall key information for exams."
But since then computers have calculated more digits of pi than could ever even be recited in a lifetime, let alone memorised, and now pi memorisation is only for the truly dedicated.
Up until 1944, the memorisation and recitation of poetry was prescribed on the school curriculum, and children memorised certain 'staple poems'," says the team.
This was a big departure from the idea of learning via adult-led activities or, for older children, rote memorisation.
But they certainly serve to enliven what a more leaden pen would turn into a schoolroom exercise of memorisation and lexicography.
Saudi education, with its heavy emphasis on Wahhabist values and rote memorisation, has often been blamed for narrowing minds.
But for Mr Savall memorisation is the same as playing on autopilot, and stifles a necessary element of unpredictability.
Admissions are based solely on the points scored in one exam, and the need for rote memorisation does little to foster creative minds.
The test aims to put analytical reasoning above rote memorisation.
A chorus of Vietnamese education specialists say that Vietnam's PISA score does not fully reflect the reality of its education system, which is hamstrung by a national curriculum that encourages rote memorisation over critical thinking and creative problem-solving.
This is not their fault; rather it is a product of the Chinese educational system where memorisation of facts rather than understanding and challenging said facts, is standard educational practice.Chinese high school and undergraduate students often tell me their education is stifling and discourages any form of innovative thinking.
