Coursework usually consists of rote learning and memorization.
He blossomed under the school's policy of rejecting rote learning and became adept at writing poetry.
Exams require rote learning, and children are not encouraged to question received wisdom.
They are far too hard for year 6, and are simply a return to rote learning and memory tests.
"We had lots of spelling tests and rote learning, and I had that experience of failure," he says.
Education is based on the concept of rote learning, and creativity in the classroom is often discouraged.
The distance-learning method allows teachers to learn novel methods of teaching, which, especially in Africa, have relied for too long on rote learning and dictation, said Pota.
Samuel included mechanisms for both rote learning and generalization, enhancements that eventually led to his program's winning one game against a former Connecticut checkers champion in 1962.
In the 1960s there was the "new math," whose focus on abstract theories spurred a back-to-basics movement, emphasizing rote learning and drills.
Public schools tend to be more academically rigorous than those in America, but they also rely more on rote learning and frown on individualism.
The idea is to have less emphasis on rote learning and more emphasis on Chinese language, so that business with China will be easier.
