Word: rote
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...follows: first, Greek language should be taught rather than Greek grammar; secondly, it should be taught as a living rather than as a dead language, in the spirit of Greek rather than in that of English; and thirdly, it should be learned by observation rather than by rote, by principles rather than by rules, with intelligence rather than with blindness, and with pleasure rather than with pain. In short, Mr. White would have Greek to us a fountain of living waters and not a dead sea. To remedy present evils, therefore, he wisely advocates the economical method of reading...
...know these wedding-gifts by rote...