Word: rote
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Decent Godless People. The world wore a smiling mask in his childhood: "good parents, good food, a garden to play in." Born in Belfast in 1898, Lewis was reared in the Church of Ireland, but his parents' religion was sheer rote, the kind T. S. Eliot was to satirize in the line: "Here were a decent godless people...
...answers. Theoretically, a Caltech student may ar rive at all the wrong answers on exams, and still get passing marks if his professor believes that his thinking is sound. The whole idea, says Biologist George Beadle, is to avoid "the descriptive tech nique, which is just learning things by rote. In the analytical approach, you learn the why of things, the premise being that if you understand the principles, you can apply them to any problem...
...tongge-in-cheeke reporte did me delight ; For suche a wan, though percing to the rote. Be better far than manye a maudlin sote...
...players to engage in such extracurricular activities, against the inevitable day when they will be too old and battered to butt heads for a living. The Green Bay Packers' former great end, Don Hutson, owns the town's finest bowling alleys; the New York Giants' Kyle Rote peddles insurance and packaged kitchens...
Almost equally important is the outdated educational system. Established by the British to prepare lower class civil servants for the colonial government, the present system of university education gives students theory when they need practical training, allows almost no free student-faculty relationships, and emphasizes rote memory instead of the individual thinking needed in a new democracy. The students are young, too, entering college at about age 15. Emerging from the universities with one or more degrees, most students face almost certain unemployment, for "white collar" jobs are scarce and few are willing to accept manual work...