It seemed as if rote learning was the madrasa's only style of learning.
This is my preferred style of learning yoga and, I think, the safest and most traditional.
They wanted me to experience a more well-rounded style of learning and to participate in sports and activities.
In one camp sits the education secretary, Michael Gove, champion of a traditional, knowledge-based style of learning.
What mattered most was not the substance of the course so much as the way she thought, the style of learning she fostered.
Should schools react by moving away from the very focused, knowledge-based, results-driven style of learning they have been encouraged to adopt in recent years?
As if parroting the marketing copy in the college's brochure, alums overwhelmingly endorse Reed's "conference" style of learning, in which lessons transmitted in lectures are later reinforced in smaller groups where students engage in spirited debates.
Mr. Tose said he traced the inability to Japan's traditional style of learning -- cramming -- and to a subtle shift that began more than 20 years ago that allowed high school students some electives and lighter classroom workloads.
The Schools Attuned program was developed by Mel Levine, a pediatrician and researcher at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, who says teachers must pay close attention to every child's style of learning.
I had the great benefit of attending a really crappy Jesuit high school, which gave my style of learning an autodidactic turn, hiding out in used bookstores and reading randomly, with absolutely no sense of systematic knowledge.
We equate this condition to the sort of textbook style of learning prevalent until about a decade ago.
