He later wrote that the spirit of learning and creative thought were lost in strict rote learning.
I did not find happiness in the strict rules, rites and rituals that were supposed to lead me closer to God.
He wants a traditional Indian fire ceremony of thanksgiving at his cremation in accordance with a strict interpretation of Vedic rites.
The penitential rite involving strict discipline did not endure beyond the early Middle Ages, and there can be no doubt that it was too rigorous for most Christians.
Unhappy with the rote learning and strict discipline of China's school system, a Beijing business executive, David Cao, sent his 10-year-old son, Yuxuan, to a $6,000 summer camp run by the Y.M.C.A. in Whittier, Calif.
Pieter van den Toorn, whose strict formalist analyses of the "Rite" have often collided with Taruskin's sociological readings, seemed at one with his rival when he spoke of the "sadism" of Stravinsky's unpredictable accents.
Either "rite of passage" or "ritual" facing deadly difficulties as analytic concept, we have no way to differentiate common behavior, rite of passage, and ritual in a strict sense until today.
Sorry, my mistake: it was a utopian colony in Iowa that lived by strict religious principles, including the holy rite of digital temperature control.
He hated the strict protocols followed by teachers and rote learning demanded of students, which explains his disdain for school, which he carried with him when, at age 9½, he entered the Luitpold Gymnasium, a competitive school.
The school stresses student independence over teacher-led lessons, scientific inquiry over rote memorization and freedom and self-expression over strict structure and discipline.
