Word: rote
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shady Hill kids learn spelling and the multiplication tables by rote-but only after they have been beguiled into understanding the necessity for them. They first find out about arithmetic by adding and subtracting blocks, later by planning railroad trips in dollars, miles, and hours. They study science by first "exploring" the subject: they weigh snow, melt it, keep daily logs of weather and temperature...
...whose principal recreation is before-breakfast golf, Admiral Holloway has lately developed another: reading books on education and teaching methods. Critics of the Academy hope that from his reading he will find some cure for Annapolis' antiquated system of rote recitation and continuous crams...
Pragmatism was pretty radical when Dewey took it up. Applied to education, it put the emphasis on the student-teaching must be adapted to the individual pupil, instead of making all study the same thing in the same rote-ridden way. As director of the University of Chicago's Laboratory School (1902-04), Dewey fathered the movement now called progressive education-"learning by living." Whether he sowed good seed, or tares, or dragon's teeth, is a moot question still...
...just finished his elementary schooling, and celebrated by planting an oak tree on the grounds of the Peers' School. In a school-house built for his benefit next to the Palace grounds-to spare the prince a "dangerous" trip down the street-he had learned his lessons by rote and recited them, singsong fashion, with other young male aristocrats. He had also studied English with a British tutor, long resident in Japan, whose future under an American matriarchy remained in doubt...
Sargent v. Twelve-Year-Olds. Harvard's articulate Dean of Architecture Joseph Hudnut would like to cut down on rote textbook learning, not only for the "nonverbal" third, but for all high-school students. Says he in the January Magazine...