Word: rote
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Champion Detroit Lions, but by the time the 25th annual All-Star football game (at Chicago's Soldier Field) was over, the college kids had twisted the Lions' tails in a 35-19 victory. After a slow start, the All-Stars put pressure on Lion Quarterbacks Tobin Rote and Bobby Layne, soon got their own offense going. Two Cleveland Browns draftees, Quarterback Jim Ninowski and Halfback Bob Mitchell, teamed up on spectacular pass plays of 84 and 18 yds. for touchdowns. Bobby Conrad of Texas A. & M., who had never kicked a field goal before, booted...
...right things but obviously do not understand what they mean. It says that war is hell, that love is holy, that color is only skin-deep, that insincerity is the root of all evil. But it says all these things as a parrot requests a cracker, by rote and without conviction ; and instead of conviction, the picture offers a tediously sentimental farewell to arms and a rather painful exhibition of the sort of placebo liberalism that finds no difficulty in accepting racial equality-provided, of course, that the Negroes in question are well educated, successful in business, and look just...
Charts, maps, and reports play a large part in all of this work, as the familiar progressive school formula of learning by doing is constantly applied. But the students are not merely following rote plans; they are actually recreating, in many cases, the actual processes of discovery, especially in astronomy and geography...
STUNG by criticism, progressive educationists defended their belief in teaching according to "life purposes," and blasted back at their critics. Two questioned the teaching of foreign languages, another insisted that "adjustment" is more important than "rote learning." A letter from the National Association of Secondary-School Principals called its 16,500 members to arms and, among other things, asked them to consider discontinuing school subscriptions to TIME and LIFE. See EDUCATION, Back Talk and The Best Defense...
What Is Truth? In the Educational Record, Byron S. Hollinshead, onetime president of Coe College of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, writes what is virtually an educationist manifesto: "One can be lost in admiration for hard work and high standards . . . without believing that rote learning and a heavy emphasis on past civilizations constitute the best preparation for solving modern problems." French children, says he, are interested in Latin because it is similar to their own language, because it is used in Roman Catholic churches, and because Roman ruins arouse their curiosity, but "one cannot expect an American boy to have the same...